Google TPU IronwoodGoogle
11
Inference-first TPU pods
- Version
- 7th-generation (Ironwood)
- Cost
- from $5.4/unit
- Model
- Gemini
Apple Silicon Neural Engine
Apple · #11 most active of 18 in Chips & Compute
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.
Source: Apple (no public source page recorded) · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow
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
- disclosed
Apple Foundation Models
Provider undisclosed
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.
- Apple Foundation ModelsApple · 2 products
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 relationsApple 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
Also in Chips & Compute
All Chips & ComputeCerebras WSE-3
Cerebras
9
Wafer-scale inference and training
- Version
- CS-4
- Cost
- Free trial credits available; developer tier has free promotional credits.
- Model
- Codex-Spark
Tenstorrent Blackhole
Tenstorrent
8
Open RISC-V AI hardware
- Version
- Blackhole
- Cost
- from $999/unit
- Model
- Blackhole Tensix
7
Cloud-native training silicon
- Version
- Trainium2
- Cost
- Pricing is not published on the page. Available via EC2 instances/UltraServers.
- Model
- Neuron compiler
NVIDIA Blackwell
NVIDIA
5
GB200/B200 rack-scale AI systems
- Version
- GB200 NVL72
- Cost
- Pricing is not published (enterprise/quote-only)
- Model
- Blackwell
High-memory GPU alternative
- Version
- MI355X
- Cost
- Enterprise hardware, pricing not published
- Model
- CDNA
Elsewhere on the same models
Products in other segments that name one of Apple Silicon Neural Engine's models in their stack.
Apple Intelligence
Apple
3
On-device generative features across iPhone, iPad and Mac.
- Version
- Apple Intelligence
- Cost
- Free to use on compatible Apple devices. Free API access to Apple Foundation Models on PCC for eligible developers.
- Model
- Apple Foundation Models
Change history
No changes recorded yet.
Apple Silicon Neural Engine compared
Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Chips & Compute.
How to cite this page
Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/apple-silicon
APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Apple Silicon Neural Engine — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, 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: 2026-11-08}
}