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Public story · 2026-08-29 · source-backed
At Hot Chips 2026 Samsung presented multiply-accumulate units inside the DRAM banks while staying compatible with standard memory controllers. 1.2 TOPS INT8/FP8 per chip, doubling to 2.4 at 4-bit weights, which is exactly where memory-bound local LLM decode would benefit. The software problems are the real story: PIM memory must be marked uncacheable, prefetching breaks, and PIM modes redefine DRAM access commands so you can't mix PIM and normal traffic. Multitasking on this is unsolved. (Chips and Cheese)
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