Show HN: Avoiding the Memory Wall by computing LLM inference directly inside RAM
The excitement surrounding PrismML’s 1-bit/ternary Bonsai models has the industry closely watching how smartphone giants, particularly Apple, will implement LLMs on edge devices. Moving AI on-device is a brilliant and necessary strategy. Achieving this on a phone requires extreme quantization, such as PrismML’s ternary weights.However, a critical hardware reality often overlooked by the software world is that fitting the weights in RAM is not equivalent to moving them.
- ▪The excitement surrounding PrismML’s 1-bit/ternary Bonsai models has the industry closely watching how smartphone giants, particularly Apple, will implement LLMs on edge devices.
- ▪Moving AI on-device is a brilliant and necessary strategy.
- ▪Achieving this on a phone requires extreme quantization, such as PrismML’s ternary weights.However, a critical hardware reality often overlooked by the software world is that fitting the weights in RAM is not equivalent to moving them.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022097 |
| Publication time | Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:21:32 +0000 |
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The excitement surrounding PrismML’s 1-bit/ternary Bonsai models has the industry closely watching how smartphone giants, particularly Apple, will implement LLMs on edge devices. Moving AI on-device is a brilliant and necessary strategy. It ensures absolute user privacy in alignment with EU regulations, fundamentally shifts the economics away from costly cloud inference, and paves the way for a significant hardware upgrade supercycle as users seek true AI-capable silicon.To create a smart on-device "Semantic Router," models need to reach the 27B+ parameter scale.
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