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WHAT EDGE AI COULD DO TO GPU RESALE VALUES

davefriedman.substack.com9 min read

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A GPU just needs to lose enough of the business its next owner expected to serve for its value assumption to fail. Increasingly capable inference on phones and laptops threatens that business. Edge adoption weakens the case for treating cheap inference as a dependable floor under GPU residual values. Once local execution meets quality, latency, memory, and battery requirements, end users may no longer require data center compute.