Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips

Apple's self-driving car programme never truly got disconnected the ground, but it whitethorn person been what made the company's chips the almighty AI performers they are. Early successful the improvement of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would request powerful on-device AI processing. While the car processor was never finished, arsenic Mark Gurman details successful his latest Power On newsletter, it did pb to the improvement of the Neural Engine, the backbone of Apple's on-device AI processing.

The Neural Engine made its debut with the iPhone X and the A11 Bionic. In those aboriginal days, it was chiefly utilized for machine vision, powering FaceID, Animoji, and a …

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