1.7B laptops vs 21B IoT devices: the agent-concurrency gap nobody talks about
seanwbren · x · 2026-10-13
Citing Google figures, the author notes there are 1.7 billion laptops worldwide versus 21 billion IoT devices — and a laptop can run N times as many agents as an IoT device, highlighting how skewed the compute distribution for edge agent deployment really is.
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