
AI Inference Chips: Why Memory Bandwidth Beats Peak FLOPS
Decode reads the whole model to produce one token. Working from NVIDIA's own published rack figures, here is the arithmetic that explains why serving throughput ignores the number on the box.
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Decode reads the whole model to produce one token. Working from NVIDIA's own published rack figures, here is the arithmetic that explains why serving throughput ignores the number on the box.

Parameters times bytes per parameter decides feasibility before any licence review does. What 375B, 552B and 753B models actually cost to hold in HBM, and why active-parameter counts mislead.

Attestation proves genuine hardware and a known measurement. It does not prove the code is safe, the data protected either side of processing, or that anyone checked the report — and 2026 research…