JERUSALEM, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Israeli and German researchers have jointly developed an advanced method for computer acceleration, the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in northern Israel said on Tuesday.

Technion researchers and their colleagues from Julich Research Center and RWTH Aachen University in western Germany used a computer memory, rather than its processor, to carry out computational operations.

In recent decades, the processors' computation speed and the memory units' storage capacity have dramatically increased, but communication between them has become a bottleneck that limits the computational pace of the entire computer.

This is because the data transfer from the processor to the memory unit and back is significantly slower than the computation itself, also consuming a lot of energy.

To solve this problem, the Israeli-German team demonstrated in-memory digital computations like those done by the processor, aiming to perform computation and storage by the same unit to unlock the "traffic jams" between the computer's two main units.

Thus, the team implemented three electrical circuits for computations (logic gates) within a memory unit, demonstrating how numbers can be summed in this unit.

This is considered a breakthrough because performing computations in memory units is very complex and technologically challenging, mainly due to the different physical properties of the computational components in both units.

The researchers noted that the findings, published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, can lead to the development of memory units with significant computational abilities. Enditem

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