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

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Terrence O'Brien
Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips
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Apple's abandoned self-driving car project inadvertently laid the foundation for the company's current AI hardware strategy. The development of the Neural Engine, originally intended for vehicle processing, has become a critical component in Apple's silicon roadmap for iPhones and future server products.

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Apple’s self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company’s chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would need powerful on-device AI processing. 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.

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