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Most of the time I have my laptop plugged in and sit at a desk...

But anyway, there are two trends:

- processors do more with less power

- LLMs get larger, but also smaller and more efficient (via quantizing, pruning)

Once upon a time it was prohibitively expensive to decode compressed video on the fly, later CPUs (both Intel [1] and Apple [2]) added dedicated decoding hardware. Now watching hours of YouTube or Netflix are part of standard battery life benchmarks

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

[2] https://www.servethehome.com/apple-ignites-the-industry-with...




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