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memory-wall

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• Capture: Does prefill/decode bridge to inference-dominant-compute? Memory bandwidth is the mechanism, not the magnitude
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-12 · gap-detection, bridge, inference, memory-wall, prefill-decode
• Peak AI hardware compute has scaled roughly 600x faster than memory bandwidth (and ~2,000x faster than interconnect bandwidth) over 20 years, making memory bandwidth the dominant AI-serving bottleneck
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-12 · memory-wall, memory-bandwidth, ai-hardware, roofline, arithmetic-intensity
• Data movement, not arithmetic, is the ceiling — a 1994 diagnosis rediscovered across operating systems, genomics, and LLM serving
  topic map 2026-08-08 · memory-wall, memory-bandwidth, roofline, computer-architecture, processing-in-memory
• Ertl's 'memory wall fallacy' argues the wall is application-dependent, not a law of physics
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · computer-architecture, memory-bandwidth, memory-wall, caching, contrarian
• The 'memory wall' was named in 1994 by William Wulf and Sally McKee to describe processors outrunning memory delivery
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · computer-architecture, memory-bandwidth, memory-wall, history-of-computing, hardware
• Does the Wulf & McKee primary confirm the coining, date, and framing of the 'memory wall'?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · computer-architecture, memory-wall, history-of-computing, verification