Equation 8 · Part 2 · Edge AI Electronics and Sensor Systems in 2035: Scenarios, Signals, and Falsifiable Predictions
Symbol t
What this part means
the time or time index used in this relationship.
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t is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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If is the (roughly fixed, application-set) power envelope in watts and is the achieved energy efficiency of the best available accelerator at time t , measured in tera-operations per second per watt, then the usable on-device compute throughput is approximately .
The passage around this formula
itself is not free to grow indefinitely inside conventional CMOS. Horowitz, Alon, and Patil’s widely cited analysis of chip power scaling made the mechanism explicit: as feature size shrank across recent nodes, supply voltage and threshold voltage stopped scaling down at the historical rate, because pushing them lower drives subthreshold leakage up sharply, and power — not transistor count — became the binding limiter on how fast or how densely a chip could usefully run [ 11 ] . That single fact is the quiet premise behind most edge-AI marketing that promises “10x more efficient” silicon every generation: within one switching technology, each further gain in gets structurally…
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