Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust . First look: Anker is attempting to shift how artificial intelligence runs on small devices by moving computation out of the cloud and directly into the hardware people carry every day. Its newly announced Thus processor is designed to run larger neural networks locally in compact, battery-constrained products such as earbuds, where tight power budgets have traditionally limited what on-device AI can do. The processor's compute-in-memory architecture departs from the conventional separation between processing and storage. Traditional chips shuttle data back and forth between memory and compute units, a process that consumes both time and energy. In Thus, computation happens directly inside the NOR flash cells themselves, so models run in the same place where they are stored. This architectural shift is not new in theory, but it has seen limited real-world deployment.…