How we brought the Oberon / Cyan Skillfish APU from dangerous 101°C throttling down to 85°C while slashing power consumption from 68W to 41W (-39%) with zero performance loss on Microsoft Phi-4 (14B).
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How we brought the Oberon / Cyan Skillfish APU from dangerous 101°C throttling down to 85°C while slashing power consumption from 68W to 41W (-39%) with zero performance loss on Microsoft Phi-4 (14B).
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