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Equation 14 · Part 2 · What an AI Accelerator Actually Is: Silicon, Packaging, and the Memory It Can Reach

Symbol P_max

I∗=Pmax⁡β,I^{*} = \frac{P_{\max}}{\beta},
Pmax⁡P_{\max}

What this part means

the machine’s peak arithmetic rate.

Its job in the formula

PmP_max occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

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Let Pmax⁡P_{\max} be the machine’s peak arithmetic rate and β\beta its achievable memory bandwidth.

The passage around this formula

That expression is the whole model, and it has one structural feature that matters more than the rest. The two bounds cross at a ridge point I∗=Pmax⁡βI^{*} = \frac{P_{\max}}{\beta}. the arithmetic intensity a workload must exceed before the machine’s peak rate is even theoretically reachable. Below I∗I^{*} the kernel is memory bound and no amount of additional arithmetic capability changes its runtime. Above it the kernel is compute bound and no amount of additional bandwidth helps.

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