Embedded & edge
Compute bolted to something that moves or watches: driver-assist stacks, warehouse robots, security cameras, smart TVs, drones. The fastest-growing slice outside the datacenter, because every new vehicle now ships with a small supercomputer.
Embedded & edge over time
Installed compute in zettaFLOP/s, log scale, 2008 → present. A straight line on this axis means steady exponential growth; the slope is the doubling rate. History before the 2026 anchor is reconstructed — see the methodology.
Automotive ADAS, robotics, cameras, smart TVs and edge NPUs, normalized from INT8 TOPS to dense FP16.
Tesla HW4 is ~50 INT8 TOPS per car; NVIDIA Thor, Orin and Jetson carry the rest, plus billions of small NPUs.
Overlap treatment: Devices outside the datacenter and outside the personal-device lines; microcontrollers with no vector unit are excluded as immaterial.
Growth: compounding at 1.25× a year (37.3-month doubling) between published vintages.