The Minutes of Brad Gerstner on hardware https://minutesof.com/brad-gerstner/on/hardware/ Everything Brad Gerstner has said on hardware: 2 verbatim quotes from May 2024, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:01:32 +0000 Gerstner estimates Apple needs 75 gigs of DRAM on phones to run 7B on-device models. https://minutesof.com/q/4c94cf62-8cc0-4ef5-9679-00a68b01f29c/ https://minutesof.com/q/4c94cf62-8cc0-4ef5-9679-00a68b01f29c/ “I think the question that Apple's probably struggling with, Bill, is in order to do that, even a 7B model, you probably have to have, you know, 75 gigs of DRAM on your phone, right?” — BG2 Pod Thu, 16 May 2024 19:31:21 +0000 hardware Gerstner estimates running a 7B model on-device requires 75 gigabytes of DRAM on phones. https://minutesof.com/q/13d22a35-72f9-4250-96f1-89f068171dac/ https://minutesof.com/q/13d22a35-72f9-4250-96f1-89f068171dac/ “in order to do that, even a 7B model, you probably have to have, you know, 75 gigs of DRAM on your phone, right?” — BG2 Pod Thu, 16 May 2024 19:31:21 +0000 hardware