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To handle all of these bits, at least some processing has to be done at the edge. It takes far too much time, energy and money to move it all—and the bulk of it is useless. But so far there is no agreement on how or where this will be done, or by whom. Cloud providers still believe hyperscale data centers are the most efficient tool to grind down the mountains of operational data produced by IoT devices every day. Device makers, in contrast, believe they can pre-process much of that data at or close to the source if they can put a smart enough, purpose-built machine learning inference accelerator in the device. - semiengineering.com