Edge Inference - Apple Neural Engine, Qualcomm Hexagon, WebGPU/WebLLM, Jetson
The core edge constraint is memory bandwidth, not compute. Mobile DRAM sits at 50-90 GB/s; datacenter HBM3 clears 2-3 TB/s - a 30-50x gap. Decode is memory-bound so the gap is decisive. In 2026 the landscape splits four ways. Apple M4/A18…
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