Equation 23 · Part 3 · What an AI Accelerator Actually Is: Silicon, Packaging, and the Memory It Can Reach
multiplication
multiplication
What this part means
Multiply the quantities on either side.
Its job in the formula
Multiply the quantities on either side.
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The passage around this formula
Bandwidth-limited throughput is the regime where achieved FLOPS is irrelevant because I is the binding term. Autoregressive decoding in a served language model is the clearest case: generating a single token requires streaming the model weights and the accumulated key-value cache out of memory, and performs only a small number of operations per byte read. The time per decoding step obeys
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Multiplication scales one quantity by another. A dot, a cross, or adjacent symbols can indicate a product.
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