Everyone's talking about GPUs for AI - but a quieter hardware shift is about to change what "fast AI" actually means for the tools you use every day. The Part Nobody Talks About: The CPU Problem If you've used any AI-powered tool in the last two years - a writing assistant, an image generator, a meeting summarizer - you've probably noticed they aren't always fast. Sometimes they stall, sometimes they feel sluggish, and most people assume the graphics card is the culprit. That assumption isn't wr