What the hell is a Neural Engine?

If you've bought an iPhone or iPad after 2017 or an Apple Silicon Mac, it has the Apple Neural Engine. The short answer to my rhetorical question is the ANE was initially designed for machine learning features like FaceID and Memoji on iOS and debuted on the iPhone X with with the A11 chipset. Ugreen's fantastic Nexode Pro 160W 4-Port GaN Fast Charger https://amzn.to/4gjhKR8 https://www.ugreen.com/products/ugreen-nexode-pro-160w-gan-fast-charger 0:00 - Intro 1:26 - Nexode Pro 160W 4-Port Charger 2:41 - Machine Learning, Neural Engine, Core ML 4:03 - ANE is mysterious for benchmarking 4:58 - Floating points! 5:59 - Why use the ANE? 7:48 - AI is about $$$ 8:21 - Making use of the ANE 10:47- WWDC 24 and Apple Intelligence 12:28 - Create ML Other videos mentioned I've made: What are Apple's GPU cores? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TOdEjcFldI Mac Mini M1vs Mac Pro 2013 Benchmark Battle! https://youtu.be/Gza7ebuT7DA Additional Reading: https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine/blob/master/docs/ane-vs-gpu.md https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/30/a-bride-to-be-discovers-a-reality-bending-mistake-in-apples-computational-photography https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/scenes-differential-privacy Alex Ziskind - insane machine learning on the neural engine https://youtu.be/Y2FOUg_jo7k https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/729942