Apple Silicon's AI Ceiling Is Higher Than You Think (opens in new tab)

The consensus narrative around Apple Silicon and local AI inference goes something like this: impressive hardware, hobbyist-grade software, fundamentally memory-bandwidth-bound, ceiling already visible. This narrative is wrong—or at minimum, premature. The architectural headroom in Apple's Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) remains substantially underexploited by current inference frameworks, and recent work from Mininglamp Technology's open-source Cider SDK demonstrates that the compute ceili...