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Equation 11 · Part 2 · Edge AI Electronics and Sensor Systems in 2035: Scenarios, Signals, and Falsifiable Predictions

Symbol t

η(t)\eta(t)
tt

What this part means

t is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

Its job in the formula

t is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

The passage around this formula

The compute-per-watt equation above has an implicit assumption baked into it: that η(t)\eta(t) 's growth comes from refining one underlying switching technology, conventional digital CMOS. The clearest documented case for how that assumption could break is analog, compute-in-memory silicon, which does not perform a multiply-accumulate as a sequence of digital switching events at all, but as a physical operation — current summation on a resistive or phase-change element — colocated with storage.

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