Does A Fish Need a Bicycle? The Case for On-Chip NPUs in DBMS
Summary: Evaluates on-chip neural processing units (NPUs) as lightweight, low-latency alternatives to GPUs for in-DB ML tasks, avoiding host–device transfers and GPU cost/complexity. Shows NPUs excel for small-scale, latency-sensitive tasks such as learned indexes and ML-based operators. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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