Equation 8 · Part 2 · Comparing the Main Approaches to AI Accelerator Architecture
subscript
subscript
What this part means
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Its job in the formula
A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.
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The passage around this formula
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.
Learn the underlying idea
A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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