Towards Data Science
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Gokul Chandra Purnachandra Reddy
Prefill Is Compute-Bound. Decode Is Memory-Bound. Why Your GPU Shouldn’t Do Both.
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Inside disaggregated LLM inference — the architecture shift behind 2-4x cost reduction that most ML teams haven't adopted yet.
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Decode Is Memory-Bound.
Why Your GPU Shouldn’t Do Both.
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