I am still trying to figure out how CIM is supposed to work out. The highest density storage shares a single access structure among many bits (see SRAM design)

I am still trying to figure out how CIM is supposed to work out. The highest density storage shares a single access structure among many bits (see SRAM design). This is antithetical to real CIM, because you fundamentally have to read & write the whole structure iteratively, at which point it’s just regular compute. On the other hand, if you build memory that does not depend on a shared access structure, the density is inherently poor. We already know how to build these today in CMOS, and the reason they have not taken the world by storm is the crummy density. (A CAM, commonly built with flip flops, is a simple form of CIM) There’s a good chance I’m just not creative enough to see the light, but I haven’t found my way past this basic axiom.