Qwen3.5 Architecture Implemented on FPGA for 9B/27B INT4 Models on Affordable Mining Hardware

Core summary

One sentence to understand this update

A Reddit user successfully implemented the Qwen3.5 architecture on FPGA fabric to run 9B/27B INT4 models using relatively inexpensive eBay mining hardware, demonstrating alternative hardware for LLM inference.

Impact & opportunity

What this could mean

This opens opportunities for builders to explore more cost-effective and energy-efficient hardware solutions like FPGAs for local LLM inference, especially for quantized models.