disaggregation
2 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 3, 2026 by Philip Kiely · across every show →
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Aug 3, 2026 positive
Quantization, speculative decoding, and prefill-decode disaggregation each yield 2x speedups
“Going from BF-sixteen to NVFP four is, it's not quite a two X, right? It's like, I think it's about like 30, 30 to 40% from 16 to eight, and then another 30 to 40% multiplied from eight to four. So that doesn't quite get you a two X, but like roughly a two X. …”
Aug 3, 2026 positive
NVIDIA Rubin will shift inference engineering toward traditional hardware infrastructure challenges
“I think that themes around like KV cache offloading, KV aware routing, and disaggregation are going to be substantially more important in the Rubin era, which means that inference engineering becomes not just a like CUDA kernel problem, but also like a very tr…”