Samsung has announced a new type of HBM. Named HBM-PIM, this is the world’s first High Bandwidth Memory integrated with artificial intelligence processing power. Featuring a processing-in-memory design, HBM-PIM is aimed at data centre use, HPC systems, and AI-enabled mobile applications. Although HBM-PIM has been designed for such tasks, Samsung will work with AI specialists for “even more advanced PIM-powered applications”. Rick Stevens, Argonne’s Associate Laboratory director for computing, environment, and life sciences, stated it’s glad that Samsung is tackling the “memory ...