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Why Apple Silicon Quietly Won the Local-AI Race (April 2026) Executive summary While the public AI narrative is dominated by capex wars and cloud GPU shortages, a quieter shift has happened on the desktop. A single Apple Silicon laptop with 64GB of u...

Apr 18 · 7 min read · sleepyquant.hashnode.dev  
Updated Apr 23  
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