what would these alternative architectures be? A traditional von Newmann computer reads instructions and data from memory, into something that does arithmetic,

what would these alternative architectures be? A traditional von Newmann computer reads instructions and data from memory, into something that does arithmetic, logic and control (call it a CPU). But consider that the "memory" nowadays is composed of multiple instances of 8 Gib DRAM. That's a lot of bits to be sitting there, read out perhaps 64 at a time by the CPU. Instead, can some logic be embedded within each memory chip? Some way to bypass the "von Neumann bottleneck"?[1] Ideas like that are the essence of "alternative architecture". Can a system composed of these, let's call them "non-von Neumann" elements, be faster or cheaper than the computer architecture we've been using since Johnny's 1945 seminal paper.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture#Von_Neumann_bottleneck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture#Von_N... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the_EDVAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Draft_of_a_Report_on_the...