What They Say
The Korea Herald reported that SK Hynix has ‘next generation’ memory chips that can process data as well as storing it. The firm claims that this can increase calculation times by ‘up to 16 times’ and potentially reducing power consumption of computers by 80%. The chips are know as process-in-memory or PIM. Details will be released at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco at the end of this month.
The idea of the chip is to perform some processing on the data while it remains in the memory chip and without needing to transfer it into the processor.
The firm plans to further extend the concept to optimise for AI.
What We Think
SK Hynix wrote an interesting backgrounder on this concept in EE Times in October. I wouldn’t normally bother with semiconductor stories, but this one looks significant. (BR)
