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📈 RisingEdge AI Inference.
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On-device AI (smartphones, laptops, industrial sensors) is growing faster than cloud AI in 2026. Apple Intelligence, Qualcomm's Hexagon NPUs, and NVIDIA Jetson are driving hardware; smaller efficient models like Phi-4 and Gemma are driving software.
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