Equation 1 · Part 2 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of AI Memory Systems and the Bandwidth Wall
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
The scale of that abstract argument, made concrete decades later, is stark. Gholami and colleagues, surveying twenty years of server hardware, report that peak hardware FLOPS scaled at roughly 3.0 times every two years while DRAM bandwidth scaled at only 1.6 times and interconnect bandwidth at 1.4 times over the same interval [ 13 ] . Those are compounding rates, and compounding rates diverge violently over long periods. If the two multipliers applied uniformly across a full twenty years — an extrapolation the source itself does not perform, offered here only to size the shape of the problem, not as a number the cited paper states — the ratio between available arithmetic and available…
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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