Equation 17 · Part 1 · What an AI Accelerator Actually Is: Silicon, Packaging, and the Memory It Can Reach
Symbol β
What this part means
the achievable memory bandwidth.
Its job in the formula
β 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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Where the article explains it
Let be the machine’s peak arithmetic rate and its achievable memory bandwidth.
The passage around this formula
Now put the two scaling rates from the opening beside this. If grows at 3.0x per two years and grows at 1.6x, then — the intensity threshold a workload must clear — grows at roughly 1.9x per two years [ 4 ] . Each hardware generation raises the bar for what counts as compute bound. This is why a kernel that was compute bound two generations ago is memory bound today without a line of its source changing, and it is the single most useful thing to know about accelerator roadmaps.
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