First incarnations of this I heard of were SLAM, Scan Line Access Memory [1]
"A SLAM consists of a conventional dense semiconductor dynamic memory augmented with highly parallel, but simple, on-chip processors designed specifically for fast computer graphics rasterization. "
"A SLAM consists of a conventional dense semiconductor dynamic memory augmented with highly parallel, but simple, on-chip processors designed specifically for fast computer graphics rasterization. "
and PixelPlanes[2].
[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=13358
[2] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0c1b/8ffdf7074a73883139da41...