# Phones do light compute; Akash does the heavy lifting

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-07-23
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** The Composability Potential of IBC Enabled Blockchains (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:00:42 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpARsQQOLyU&t=42s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2022-07-23-phones-do-light-compute-akash-does-the-heavy-lifti-ofz3/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Phones do light compute; Akash does the heavy lifting," The Composability Potential of IBC Enabled Blockchains (Akash Network), 23 Jul 2022, 00:00:42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpARsQQOLyU&t=42s

## Quote — verbatim

> Mobile phones are lightweight devices — they can \[not\] do the computations, right? So a use case for Akash there would be lightweight processing on the mobile phone and heavyweight processing on Akash, on a decentralized cloud. So you can see how the mobile operating system can work in tandem with the cloud operating system in a highly composable way, without the user even knowing about it. Such use cases could be like games... you can have the high-end graphic processing done on the cloud on Akash and deliver that directly to the mobile phone.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Early articulation of his edge-device-plus-decentralized-cloud split, prompted by Solana Mobile (Saga) plans.