Chuck Moore's https://www.greenarraychips.com/ for example?

This is probably a good explainer: https://transputer.net/fbooks/tarch/tarch.html

TLDR: basically build a computer by connecting a bunch of small computers with memory and compute together (what we would call a SOC - System on a Chip - today )

The instincts were correct IMHO, the implementation changed a lot over time and we do a similar strategy at different scales.

Obviously, it's a transputer, at least it looks like one.