r/LocalLLaMA
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I ran Qwen3.5-0.8B on a sub-$20 CPU chip in under 512MiB of memory
4/5 on ARC-Easy. This is a 5-case smoke test with greedy decoding, scoring rule fixed before the run. Not the official benchmark. The chip is an Amlogic A113X: quad Cortex-A53 from 2017, $10-20 class, no NPU, no GPU. It's inside a ThirdReality smart home hub with 2GB RAM. I wrote a custom C runtime for it. Single stati