Examples
In the 1980s, a tiny CPU that executed FORTH was fabricated into a DRAM chip to improve PUSH and POP. FORTH is a Stack-oriented programming language and this improved its efficiency.
The Transputer also had large on chip memory given that it was made in the early 1980s making it essentially a processor-in-memory.
Notable PIM projects include the Berkeley IRAM project (IRAM) at the University of California, Berkeley project or the University of Notre Dame PIM effort.
Read more about this topic: Computational RAM
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