Billions of computing hours sit idle inside the phones already in people’s pockets every year, and the Microsoft Research paper that landed at EuroSys 2026 explains what all that wasted power could actually run

Pick up your phone. It is probably doing almost nothing right now. Not because it lacks the power. The AI chip pressed into the glass sandwich in your hand is, by the measure of raw operations per second, extraordinary hardware. It is just sitting there. The chip nobody told you was an AI supercomputer Every ... Read more