Equation 8 · Comparing the Main Approaches to AI Accelerator Architecture
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This decomposition is also why a device’s peak number and its delivered number can diverge by an order of magnitude depending entirely on software maturity, with no change to the silicon — and why comparing two architectures’ peak numbers, without separately accounting for how mature each compiler is at extracting , compares two different things that happen to share units.
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