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Inside the AI Factory: How GPUs, CPUs, and Memory Serve More Users

Ben Bajarin · September 22, 2026

In Secret Agent CPU, Revisited, we connected the number of people an AI system can serve to both GPU throughput and CPU execution capacity. I want to spend a little more time on how that works, because it helps explain why adding CPUs can improve the output of an AI datacenter even when the model runs on GPUs. Think about a factory staffed by people.

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Inside the AI Factory: How GPUs, CPUs, and Memory Serve More Users

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