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This one's authored by a human, the other one is authored by Claude. > Does the M4 and later ANE expose any additional capabilities, or is it just a higher-per
by woadwarrior01 14d ago
This one's authored by a human, the other one is authored by Claude.
> Does the M4 and later ANE expose any additional capabilities, or is it just a higher-performance iteration of the same thing?
IIUC, M4 introduced a fast path for INT8 weights and activations (w8a8). M5 Ultra, M6 and A20 have two ANEs.
> As an aside, the introduction to this article seems to conflate the ANE with the Neural Accelerators (NAX)
Yeah, that part is true. NAX cores are matmult accelerators, closer to tensor cores in NVIDIA GPUs.
- kazaper 12d agoThis one has mistakes though.. The ANE definitely exists in the m5 and has more tflops than the m4 or m3 version.