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Apple Silicon Neural Engine

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On-device inference across Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Current version

M5

Entry cost

Bundled with hardware

Changes / 30d

0

Capabilities

  • Neural accelerators per GPU core
  • Unified memory
  • On-device LLM

Pricing

Bundled with hardware

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Apple Foundation Models

    disclosed

Context window

Public API

no

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • TSMC
  • Metal
  • MLX

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unknown

Reported scale

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No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

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