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Everything we actually know about the Apple Neural Engine (ANE)
16 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 4 stories, 12 comments · first 2020-04-16 · latest 2026-06-30
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At the release of Apple Silicon, there was this repos https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine That reference lot's of discovery and reverse engineer on the ANE.
comment by Narew · 2026-06-30 · in Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance -
…you mean. ANE and CoreML is kind of meh for most use cases, great for some very specific tasks. https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine/blob/master/docs/a...
comment by dev_l1x_be · 2026-03-04 · in MacBook Air with M5 -
…Since all we know about the Neural Engine comes from Apple papers or reverse engineering efforts ( https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine ), it’s plausible that they addressed some quirks to enable better transformer performance. They…
comment by hannesfur · 2025-10-15 · in Apple M5 chip -
…[3] https://github.com/antgroup-skyward/ANETools/tree/main/ANEDi... [4] https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine You can use a high level APIs like MLX, Metal or CoreML to compute other things on the GPU and NPU. Shadama [5] is a
comment by morphle · 2024-12-25 · in Ask HN: Resources for general purpose GPU development on Apple's M* chips? -
…bundle (i.e. sticking with the video card) is probably a better business move. [1] https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine/blob/master/docs/a...
comment by dvt · 2024-05-13 · in GPUs Go Brrr -
…the higher level datacenter cards so not sure why apple would use it instead of fp8 natively) [1]: https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine/blob/master/docs/1...
comment by treesciencebot · 2024-05-07 · in Apple introduces M4 chip -
yep. they have a neural engine that is separate from the CPU and GPU that does really fast matmuls https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine . it's basically completely undocumented and for programs like blas it has more horsepower than…
comment by adgjlsfhk1 · 2024-03-01 · in Optimize sgemm on RISC-V platform -
…TensorFlow lite; tflite: https://www.tensorflow.org/lite From https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine : > The Apple Neural Engine (or ANE) is a type of NPU, which stands for Neural Processing Unit. From https://github.
comment by westurner · 2023-08-24 · in Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spiraled out of control’ -
…5 years (although equally, I can imagine this is not on Apple's roadmap at all currently) [1] https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine [2] https://github.com/smpanaro/more-ane-transformers/blob/main/...
comment by anentropic · 2023-04-11 · in Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI -
My question too. This semi-answer on the page seems to contradict itself (source: https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine/blob/master/docs/p... ): "> Can I program the ANE directly? Unfortunately not. You can only use the Neural Engine…
comment by detrites · 2023-03-25 · in What we know about the Apple Neural Engine -
…a grain of truth in it. Photos/videos are heavily post-processed by Apples 'Neural engine' ( https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine ) running on the Bionic chips, but this is done at the time of recording. Zooming the video to play it…
comment by ryankrage77 · 2021-11-11 · in “Apple’s iPad creates what it thinks is there, not what necessarily is there” -
…found an interesting GitHub page written by a consultant who seems to know a fair amount about it. https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine
comment by CountSessine · 2020-11-18 · in 2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test