Equation 1 · Part 7 · AI Accelerator Architecture in 2035: Scenarios, Signals, and Falsifiable Predictions

Symbol r_B

\frac{F(t)}{B(t)} = \frac{F_0}{B_0}\left(\frac{r_F}{r_B}\right)^{t/2}

r_B

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$r_B$ occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.

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$r_B$ occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.

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…or 5.5 doubling periods at the two-year cadence the source measures — gives a compact way to see how much the imbalance would compound if nothing structural intervenes: $\frac{F(t)}{B(t)} = \frac{F_0}{B_0}\left(\frac{r_F}{r_B}\right)^{t/2}$ . With $r_F$ $\approx$ 3.0 and $r_B$ $\approx$ 1.6 for DRAM bandwidth, ( $r_F$ / $r_B$ )^{5.5} = (1.875)^{5.5} $\approx$ 32 : the ratio of peak arithmetic to memory bandwidth would be roughly 32 times higher in 2035 than in 2024 if the historical exponents hold exactly. Swap in interconnect bandwidth’s 1.4x rate and the same arithmetic gives…

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