What the hell is a Neural Engine?

If you've bought an iPhone or iPad after 2017 or an Apple Silicon Mac, it has the Apple Neural Engine. The short answer to my rhetorical question is the ANE was initially designed for machine learning features like FaceID and Memoji on iOS and debuted on the iPhone X with with the A11 chipset.

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0:00 - Intro
1:26 - Nexode Pro 160W 4-Port Charger
2:41 - Machine Learning, Neural Engine, Core ML
4:03 - ANE is mysterious for benchmarking
4:58 - Floating points!
5:59 - Why use the ANE?
7:48 - AI is about $$$
8:21 - Making use of the ANE
10:47- WWDC 24 and Apple Intelligence
12:28 - Create ML

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Additional Reading:
https://github.com/hollance/neural-en...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/...

https://machinelearning.apple.com/res...

Alex Ziskind - insane machine learning on the neural engine
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https://forums.developer.apple.com/fo...