Some interesting research out of Intel shows that they might have a giant architecture change coming:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4089117-micron-intel-ai-security-play-century
http://webee.technion.ac.il/~ran/papers/YavitsAssociative.pdf
Micron's Automata is memory with a primitive CPU in embedded into each memory cell. Intel is replacing their last level cache with this stuff. For regular sequential CPU stuff, it just functions like regular memory. For massively parallel functions, the memory does the processing. This removes the need for high performance GPU memory.
Pretty neat.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4089117-micron-intel-ai-security-play-century
http://webee.technion.ac.il/~ran/papers/YavitsAssociative.pdf
Micron's Automata is memory with a primitive CPU in embedded into each memory cell. Intel is replacing their last level cache with this stuff. For regular sequential CPU stuff, it just functions like regular memory. For massively parallel functions, the memory does the processing. This removes the need for high performance GPU memory.
Pretty neat.