Samsung patents data search method using distributed memory chips
Samsung describes a method where a host device sends a search query to multiple memory chips that sit close to the processor. Each chip searches its own small portion of the data and sends back partial answers, which the host then combines into a final result.
In the filing’s own words
The disclosure provides a retrieval method, a host, and a process near memory apparatus. The method includes receiving a query vector, initializing a plurality of process near memory (PNM) apparatuses to perform, in a respective stored subset of data, a sub-retrieval corresponding to the query vector, receiving a plurality of sub-results returned by the plurality of PNM apparatuses based on the sub-retrieval, and outputting a retrieval result regarding the query vector based on the plurality of sub-results.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A retrieval method by a host device, the method comprising: receiving a query vector; initializing a plurality of process near memory (PNM) apparatuses to perform a sub-retrieval corresponding to the query vector, wherein a subset of data stored in each respective PNM apparatus is obtained by partitioning a data set across the plurality of PNM apparatuses such that each PNM apparatus stores a different subset of the same data set; receiving a plurality of sub-results, each of the plurality of sub-results provided by one of the plurality of PNM apparatuses based on the sub-retrieval performed in the subset of data stored in a respective PNM apparatus; and outputting a retrieval result corresponding to the query vector based on the plurality of sub-results.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- RETRIEVAL METHOD, HOST AND PROCESS NEAR MEMORY APPARATUS
- Publication number
- US20260320055A1
- Application number
- 19226765
- Filed
- Jun 3, 2025
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 16/24569 Physics & computingG06F 16/24532 Physics & computingG06F 16/9024 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Chips & hardware
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