It makes sense that all gradients are local. Does it make sense to say that gradient propagation through the layers is memoryless?
In linear layers, it is possible. Once you have computed the gradient of the output of the vector ith vector, so a scalar, you scale the input by that value and add it to the parameters.
This is a simple FMA op: a=fma(eta*z, x, a), with z the gradient of the vector, x the input, a the parameters, and eta the learning rate. This computes a = a + eta*z*x in place.