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?
Tag: Inference
Serverless Inference: Conquering the 5-Second Cold Start
The infrastructure hacks required to make scale-to-zero LLM inference viable for production latency.
LiteRT-LM Deep Dive: Engineering LLM Inference for the Edge
How Google's LiteRT-LM framework handles session cloning and KV-cache management to run models like Gemini Nano natively on-device without exploding your memory.
Semantic Caching at Scale: Vector Embeddings for 5x Latency Reduction
Moving beyond exact-match caching for repetitive zero-shot inference workloads. Learn how to architect semantic caching to slash latency and compute costs.
Chunked Prefill: Solving the Noisy Neighbor Problem in Inference
When a massive prompt stalls your entire inference server, you have a noisy neighbor problem. The solution requires rethinking how we process context with Chunked Prefill.
TTFT vs ITL: The Two Metrics Defining Inference Performance
Average latency is a lie that hides tail-end failures. To truly optimize AI inference in 2026, you must separate your Time To First Token from your Inter-Token Latency.