Apparatuses and methods involving accessing distributed sub-blocks of memory cells

A method, comprising:

• accessing a first sub-block of memory cells and a second sub-block of memory cells at the same time, wherein the first and second sub-blocks of memory cells are part of a first block of memory cells of multiple blocks of memory cells of a memory array,
• wherein the first and second sub-blocks within the block are enabled to be accessed simultaneously, and wherein the memory cells in a second block of memory cells are not enabled to be accessed when memory cells of the first block are being accessed;
• and
• wherein the first sub-block of the block of memory cells and the second sub-block of the block of memory cells are not in the same row or the same column of the block of memory cells.

A method comprising:

• receiving a memory request in an apparatus;
• and
• executing the memory request in the apparatus, wherein the executing comprises:
• enabling multiple sub-blocks in a block of memory cells to be accessed simultaneously in response to the memory request, while leaving other sub-blocks in the block of memory cells disabled for access;
• wherein the memory array comprises rows and columns of sub-blocks of memory cells, and
• wherein the enabled sub-blocks are each in a row and column that does not include another enabled sub-block;
• accessing first data in a first sub-block of memory cells of the block of memory cells;
• and
• accessing second data in a second sub-block of memory cells of the block of memory cells simultaneously with accessing the first data.

A 3D memory device comprising:

• in a stack an array multiple arrays of memory cells, each of the stacked arrays having multiple sub-blocks of memory cells, accessing multiple sub-blocks of memory cells in each of multiple arrays simultaneously;
• wherein the simultaneously accessed sub-blocks in a first array are in different rows and columns from one another;
• and
• wherein the simultaneously accessed sub-blocks in a second array are in different rows and columns from one another.