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Equation 14 · Part 5 · What an AI Accelerator Actually Is: Silicon, Packaging, and the Memory It Can Reach

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

Divide the expression above the line by the one below it.

Its job in the formula

The expression above the fraction bar is divided by the complete expression below it. The denominator must not be zero.

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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