Patent ID: 9542343
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A memory module comprising: memory devices arranged on a module board in a number of ranks and a number of columns and including a first grouping of the memory devices and a second grouping of the memory devices, the first grouping includes memory devices arranged only in a first rank among the ranks that is nearest a memory controller that controls execution of a read operation directed to the memory devices, the second grouping includes memory devices in all ranks other than the first rank, and only the memory devices of the first rank in the first grouping are each directly connected to the memory controller, the memory devices in the second grouping are each indirectly connected to the memory controller via a corresponding memory device in the first grouping arranged in a same column, and each of the memory devices in the first grouping are configured to selectively provide either self-data retrieved from a constituent memory core or other-data retrieved from a memory core of a memory device in the second grouping during the read operation.