Apple M4 processor family tipped to deliver AI focus

Apple has been referring to its features as using machine learning, not AI, but it's been in use for years now.

> Apple is using machine learning in just about every nook and cranny of iOS. It is present in how users search for photos, interact with Siri, see suggestions for events, and much, much more.

To help boost machine learning and all of the other key automated processes in iPhones, Apple made the Neural Engine. It launched with the iPhone's A11 Bionic processor to help with some camera functions, as well as Face ID.

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I feel vindicated when I suggested to other people not to try and fully spec an M3 Mac Pro to buy a future proofed machine as Microsoft wants to put a 40 TFLOP minimum on AI certified laptops to run locally, so I’m sure that Apple’s going to have significantly increase their TFLOPS as well to run locally as no Apple laptop meets that minimum.

I bought an M3 Pro with a modest hard drive bump with a plan to trade it in and not go crazy and it’s going to work :)

Every one of the M series chips has had dedicated AI hardware. AI focus has been in the hardware for years.

I wonder what they will have to sacrifice to make room for that on the die.