So you basically dispose of cache for the memory region used? I wonder what the offsets of the cache misses is going to be in practice (the article addresses it but there is no solution/impact given by samsung).
Interesting that Samsung still pursues PIM. IIRC they had a paper in ISCA21 or 22 where they showed HBM2 module with PIM, which back then impressed me quite a lot.
That being said, I am not sure what’s the killer application for this technology, and without such application adoption is unlikely.
As I understand it, the killer app is llms. You could run MACs directly in RAM, offloading a lot of work from CPU and cutting down on insane (external) memory bandwidth required.
Imagine (this is a fantasy pitch but potentially achievable for some use cases) wanting to run a larger llm and all you have to do is buy more RAM so it fits.
>On March 6, 2007, Hwang Yu-mi, a 21-year-old woman working Samsung's Giheung semiconductor plant, died from leukemia. She began working at Samsung in 2003 as an operator on one of the assembly lines.
That being said, I am not sure what’s the killer application for this technology, and without such application adoption is unlikely.
Imagine (this is a fantasy pitch but potentially achievable for some use cases) wanting to run a larger llm and all you have to do is buy more RAM so it fits.
Build it, and they will come ;)
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