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Which of the model requirements of Coral TPUs [1] are the most problematic for LLMs?

[1] https://coral.ai/docs/edgetpu/models-intro/#model-requiremen...

Guessing as to what the GP meant--coral TPUs max out around 8M parameters, IIRC. That's a few orders of magnitude less than the smallest LLM model.

The part where they have like 3 bytes of memory so you switch from extremely high latency of RAM to laughably sluggish latency of USB serial. I think there's also no support below 8 bit quants, which you'd really need.

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