What looks like an insurmountable problem may just be a well-disguised assumption. The problem of data bandwidth across the border of a microprocessor chip may just be a symptom of the assumption - that the so-called central processor has to be at the center of the machine, with memory as a peripheral. What would happen if memory took "pride of place," with processing power arrayed around its edges?

Micron Technology Inc.'s Yukon device, soon to cross the line from concept to prototype, answers this question - not with a replacement for the CPU but with an additional system resource of distributed processing power that can take full advantage of the 200G-bps bandwidth inside a synchronous dynamic RAM chip.

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