Why Unified Memory Lets Mini PCs Run Large AI Models That GPUs Can't Fit
One idea explains the whole mini PC category: unified memory lets a $2,000 box hold a 70B model no consumer GPU can fit, then decode it slowly. The roofline math, the prompt-processing catch, the NPU…
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