Tagged with

3 articles found

Apple’s Neural Engine Was Never Going to Save Us

A deep dive into the reverse-engineered ANE reveals why Apple’s beloved NPU was architected for a world that no longer exists.

#hardware architecture#neural engine#performance optimization

A20 Pro

Apple’s A20 Pro Just Made Your iPhone an AI Workhorse. The RAM, However…

Leaked specs reveal Apple’s A20 Pro chip with a doubled 32-core Neural Engine and a 50% memory bandwidth boost to 115 GB/s. Here’s why that’s a bigger deal than it sounds.

#A20 Pro#neural engine#On-Device AI

AI Inference

Apple M5 Max: 4x LLM Speed Is Nice, But 614GB/s Memory Bandwidth Is the Real Game Changer

Apple claims 4x faster LLM prompt processing on M5 Max compared to M4. We dig into the Fusion Architecture, unified memory bandwidth, and what 128GB of VRAM-equivalent actually means for running local AI.

#AI Inference#apple silicon#Local LLM...