Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips.

While the car processor was never finished, as Mark Gurman details in his latest Power On newsletter, it did lead to the development of the Neural Engine, the backbone of Apple’s on-device AI processing. . Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would need powerful on-device AI processing. In those early days, it was primarily used for computer vision, powering FaceID, Animoji, and a …
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The Neural Engine made its debut with the iPhone X and the A11 Bionic.