Gemma 4 26B A4B Running on Rockchip NPU via Custom llama.cpp Fork: 4W Power Draw for Edge AI

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A developer demonstrated Gemma 4 26B A4B running on a Rockchip NPU using a custom llama.cpp fork at just 4 watts of power (162 upvotes, 16 comments on r/LocalLLaMA). A separate post shows Gemma 4 E4B running on a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB with 2.8GHz overclock (52 up). Together these demonstrate Gemma 4's MoE architecture enabling deployment on edge hardware that would be impossible with dense models of equivalent capability.