There's still some research on this general idea -- e.g., a fellow grad student's work on in-memory bulk data operations: - https://archive.org/details/arxiv-1

There's still some research on this general idea -- e.g., a fellow grad student's work on in-memory bulk data operations: - https://archive.org/details/arxiv-1611.09988 https://archive.org/details/arxiv-1611.09988 (AND/OR/NOT in RAM) - https://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/NVM/rowclone_micro13.pdf https://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/NVM/rowclone_micro13.pdf (cloning data in RAM; full disclosure, I'm a co-author on this one) And IIRC at least one start-up (Emu Technology) that has built actual processing-in-memory (PIM) hardware.