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> The Neural Engine is dark silicon on most devices I've seen At the very least it's used by the Photos app[1]. Likely other Apple apps too. [1] https://machi
by robotresearcher 11mo ago
> The Neural Engine is dark silicon on most devices I've seen
At the very least it's used by the Photos app[1]. Likely other Apple apps too.
[1] https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/recognizing-people-photos https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/recognizing-peopl...
- buildbot 11mo agoI have a little rust script that uses the built in vision toolkit to do ocr of pdfs, it spins up the ANE to a full 1W compared to 0 as measured by the power profiler. So it is used! IMO, It’s a very apple strategy, stuff just works and is slowly more accelerated/lower power.