Guest Editors’ Introduction: Near-Memory and In-Memory Processing

The rapid explosion in data-intensive applications is posing unprecedented demand for superior data-processing capabilities. With the end of Dennard scaling, the benefits of conventional approaches of moving stored data to processing cores and enhancing the computing capability of these cores through technology scaling have diminished. At the same time, advancements in new material and integration technologies have made the old concept of coupling compute units to memory more viable.