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Memory-Centric Computing Architectures to Overcome the von Neumann Bottleneck

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In today's computers, moving data between memory and CPU can consume more than 100 times the energy of performing a single arithmetic operation, and this gap is widening every year.

Why this is interesting

You've felt it: your computer stalls when loading a huge file, even though the processor is fast. What if the memory did the computing instead of just storing data?