One thing that seems suspect about this article is when he mentions that nobody else can put a chip like the neural engine in a phone. He says Google does it in the cloud. I don't think he's tried a Google Pixel (2) device before. Put it in airplane mode and take some (portrait) shots. There are a number of articles talking about the Pixel 2 Visual Core, which sounds similar to the neural engine, and predates it: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/05/the-pixel-2s-visual-core-p...

Some basic research would be nice.