Same problem here …

I wanted a static site to be generated from a directory with a whole lot of photos… [ just files … no back end web server / php or database ]

I ended up writing a script to wrangle the image files, and piGallery2 to show them. The script finds the images, makes thumbs, renames/resizes/converts and theres a single html with javascript that reads the list, and uses piGallery2 to show the photos.

ps. I wanted to use avif file formats, as the files are smaller than jpg files, by a lot.

Sample here, with a few pics from pexels : http://quato.xyz/pix/pexels_italy/

[ it is a static site, so no server code … although the web front end does use javascript … I just copied the bundle of files under my current web server directory ]

Maybe chiplet tech allows a much better yield of GPU + CPU [ + NPU ] on the same chip, with the resulting benefits of low latency / fast interconnect, shared cache etc.

Also offers a cheaper more flexible way to mix-n-match compute subunits / cores to suit market niches.

Well see a lot more of this in future.