This reminds me of the Connection Machine architecture [1] > Each CM-1 microprocessor has its own 4 kilobits of random-access memory (RAM), and the hypercube-b

This reminds me of the Connection Machine architecture [1] > Each CM-1 microprocessor has its own 4 kilobits of random-access memory (RAM), and the hypercube-based array of them was designed to perform the same operation on multiple data points simultaneously, i.e., to execute tasks in single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) fashion. The CM-1, depending on the configuration, has as many as 65,536 individual processors, each extremely simple, processing one bit at a time. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine