Samsung patents memory chip that processes data while reading it
Samsung has been granted a patent for a memory device that performs data processing directly within the memory banks rather than moving data to a separate processor. The design assigns specific groups of memory banks to processing circuits, which read and handle data in parallel stages during each operation cycle.
In the filing’s own words
A memory device includes: memory operation circuitries to perform memory processing; memory banks assigned to one of the memory operation circuitries such that a set of n memory banks is assigned to each of the memory operation circuitries; and command pads to receive a command signal from an external source, wherein, for each of the memory operation circuitries, a corresponding memory operation circuitry to access memory banks of a corresponding set of n memory banks that is assigned to the corresponding memory operation circuitry, in an order determined based on respective distances from each of the memory banks of the corresponding set of n memory banks to the command pads, and wherein, each of the memory banks of the corresponding set of n memory banks to perform an access operation of data requested by the corresponding memory operation circuitry while the memory processing is performed.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A memory, the memory comprising: a plurality of memory operation circuitries, each memory operation circuitry configured to perform multiple stages of a pipelined operation through in-memory processing; and a plurality of memory banks assigned to the plurality of memory operation circuitries, wherein, for each of the memory operation circuitries: a corresponding set of n memory banks, of the plurality of memory banks, is assigned to a corresponding memory operation circuitry, of the plurality of memory operation circuitries, where n is a natural number; and the corresponding memory operation circuitry is configured to read data received from each assigned memory bank, of the corresponding set of n memory banks, and process the read data in parallel in different stages of the multiple stages of the pipelined operation in each operation cycle.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Memory device for performing in-memory processing
- Patent number
- US12743237B2
- Application number
- 18970303
- Filed
- Dec 5, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 15
Classified under
G06F 3/0659 Physics & computingG06F 3/0604 Physics & computingG06F 3/0673 Physics & computingG06F 3/0679 Physics & computingG06F 7/523 Physics & computingG06N 3/063 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Chips & hardware
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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