Equation 14 · Part 3 · The Real Economics of Shipping a Model to a Device
Symbol C_dev
What this part means
the fixed, per-release engineering and QA cost of producing and validating the device-tier variant matrix described above — the harness time, the pass/fail sign-off per tier, per quantization scheme, per chip target.
Its job in the formula
ev is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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Define as the fixed, per-release engineering and QA cost of producing and validating the device-tier variant matrix described above — the harness time, the pass/fail sign-off per tier, per quantization scheme, per chip target.
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Define as the fixed, per-release engineering and QA cost of producing and validating the device-tier variant matrix described above — the harness time, the pass/fail sign-off per tier, per quantization scheme, per chip target. Define U as the cost of distributing model updates to the…
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