Apple Neural Engine Internal: From ML Algorithm to HW Registers

Video : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1wvBDUnPNEo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=1wvBDUnPNEo</a>

Does anything actually use the ANE? I&#x27;ve had asitop on vanilla M1 running and have literally never seen anything use it.<p>This may be a dumb question, but would the space not be better used for more GPU cores? Then if an app actually does need to do neural net stuff, just use the GPU anyway? This way you wouldn&#x27;t have the space the ANE uses idle 99.9% of the time.

Oof. Clicking this link got me blacklisted from my router. Had to spoof my MAC address to reconnect.

&gt; I just did byte flipping on the ANEProgram, and an iOS kernel OOB read was issued.<p>This does not give us a lot of confidence.

geohot reverse engineered ANE last year, for his tinygrad project, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;geohot&#x2F;tinygrad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;geohot&#x2F;tinygrad</a> He streamed the many-hours efforts on Youtube, in case this is your thing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=mwmke957ki4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=mwmke957ki4</a>

Fascinating in a sense. All of this knowledge exists somewhere, but people are building their careers trying to understand what Apple built so that they can better understand what apple forgot.

Picking up am M1 Pro tomorrow I hope. Assuming it can play Factorio?