13
Oct
You downloaded a highly rated local Small Language Model (SLM) on your laptop, expecting private, instant AI responses. Instead, your cursor blinks for ten seconds before slowly spitting out one word at a time, while your laptop cooling fans scream. Many users assume their computer's processor is too slow or that they need a graphics card with more raw computing power to handle software engineering tasks or everyday queries. The bottleneck is almost never your processor speed or raw graphics card performance. Local AI generation is strictly memory-bandwidth bound, meaning performance depends on how fast data can travel from your…
