Benchmarking Edge Silicon: NPU vs GPU Inference
NPUs promise efficient edge LLM inference, but how do they actually compare to discrete GPUs under real production workloads?
NPUs promise efficient edge LLM inference, but how do they actually compare to discrete GPUs under real production workloads?


When aggressive INT8 quantization goes horribly rogue because of unrepresentative calibration data, and precisely how the blind pursuit of hyper efficiency can utterly destroy the end user experience.


Buying expensive GPUs to wait on cheap storage is an operational failure. We break down the math of 'Badput' and why high-performance I/O is actually a discount.


If your training loop isn't fault-tolerant, you're paying a 40% 'insurance tax' to your cloud provider. We look at the architectural cost of 30-second preemption notices.


When your model doesn't fit on one GPU, you're no longer just learning coding-you're learning physics. We dive deep into the primitives of NCCL, distributed collectives, and why the interconnect is the computer.


The AI industry is shifting from celebrating large compute budgets to hunting for efficiency. Your competitive advantage is no longer your GPU count, but your cost-per-inference.