News Score: Score the News, Sort the News, Rewrite the Headlines

Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine

I stopped working on the reverse-engineered Apple Neural Engine (ANE) driver three years ago, upon a sad mini realization that the ANE block is just not that useful, and I could be doing more useful things, and moved onto upstreaming other, more useful, blocks. The ANE's architecture was too opinionated to build a general-purpose accelerator platform around it, and a linux driver effectively opening ANE hardware API access could not broaden the class of workloads it could do. Even macOS only reg...

Read more at eiln.github.io

© News Score  score the news, sort the news, rewrite the headlines