The following glossary provides a quick-reference guide to many of the terms, acronyms, concepts, and technologies that we discussed in my previous column. Some of these definitions are necessarily simplified (entire books have been written about many of these topics), but they should at least help prevent your eyes from glazing over the next time someone tries to baffle and bewilder you when saying something like, “Quantized sparse MoE inference running on an edge NPU.” You’re welcome.