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On-device inference across Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Current version

M5

Entry cost

Bundled with hardware

Changes / 30d

0

The short answers

What is the latest version of Apple Silicon Neural Engine?
The current shipped version of Apple Silicon Neural Engine is M5.
How much does Apple Silicon Neural Engine cost?
Apple Silicon Neural Engine has no published flat entry price. Bundled with hardware
What AI model does Apple Silicon Neural Engine use?
Apple Silicon Neural Engine runs primarily on Apple Foundation Models.

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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

    Provider undisclosed

    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 unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

Public market scorecard

Apple investor relations

Apple trades as NASDAQ: AAPL. Figures below are as reported for Q3 FY2026 on Jul 30, 2026; market levels are the close on Aug 6, 2026 and are a reference marker, not a live quote.

Q3 FY2026 revenue

$94B

+8% YoY

Services revenue
~$28B
record quarter
Installed base
2.4B+ active devices

Market reference

Share price~$230
12-month change+7%
Market cap~$3.4T
Live quote

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Elsewhere on the same models

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Change history

No changes recorded yet.

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Tomorrow. (2026). Apple Silicon Neural Engine — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-17, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/apple-silicon
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-apple-silicon,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {Apple Silicon Neural Engine — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/apple-silicon}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-09-17}
}