So why *aren't* there small bits of compute baked into RAM yet? Referring to highly local operations with fixed dimensionality, or reducing queries (return or update memory region where following constraint is true). We have TB+ EC2 nodes, after all. Why move the data?
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one reason is the wafers that are good for storage (high gate capacitance) suck for computation, and vice versa
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And this is why eDRAM isn't just "copy and paste a RAM design into the die".
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eDRAM?
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DRAM implemented on the same die as the main logic. Also 1T-SRAM (a type of eDRAM). Used in POWER chips for cache, and also game consoles (PS2, Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, Wii U all had some amount of eDRAM in the GPU, also CPU cache on the Wii U).
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