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Venray tried this:

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/russell-fish-venray/

They didn't get huge that I can tell. Might be a tough market.

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DRAM is a commodity business. It works in huge batches.

Convincing DRAM manufacturers to change things for something at that small scale is a huge challenge.

I don't think venray managed to do that.

But OPMEM probably did.

Micron dabbled in this. 2003 project Yukon (shutdown in 2004) and again 10 years later with 2013 “The Automata Processor” (erased from their website).

Interesting. The last I can find on the Automata Processor is from 2014, when it was supposedly being delivered to developers within weeks. And then nothing. I wonder what happened to it. Doesn't seem like it ever turned into a shipping product.

I only heard of the university of Virginia getting some to work with. https://engineering.virginia.edu/center-automata-processing-...

Ah, cool. Seems like the latest paper involving the AP is from 2016.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/wang_APoverview_... has more information

> This work was supported in part by the NSF (CCF-0954024, CCF-1116289, CDI-1124931, EF-1124931); Air Force (FA8750- 15-2-0075); Virginia Commonwealth Fellowship; Jefferson Scholars Foundation; the Virginia CIT CRCF program under grant no. MF14S-021-IT; by C-FAR, one of the six SRC STARnet Centers, sponsored by MARCO and DARPA; a grant from Micron Technology.

I guess the other comment wasn't too far off.

Not at all. The paper is still interesting though.

Maybe they found one good client, a 3 letter one.

This is now at:

[1] https://www.naturalsemi.com/

I remember reading about it at the times, needing to have support by the firmware/BIOS/UEFI when you wanted to plug this into a system. Seems it was too complicated, and got moved onto a pcie-card with fpga. Makes me wonder if the automata rams as such are even produced, or they just bought Microns remainig stock, and go out of business if that runs out?

Wayback Machined captured statement from Micron, and where development continues:

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20180807213400/http://www.micron...

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