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Re:Apple's Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market Grows W... by robotresearcher on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:30PM (#46210213)
> 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-peopl...

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Re:Apple's Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market Grows W... by buildbot on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:36PM (#46210297)
I 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.

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