Next chip integrated into the iPhone: here is the “Apple Neural Engine”, dedicated to AI

According to a source close to the company
Californian, it is currently in the process of developing a new
homemade chip, which would bededicated to
artificial intelligence technologies and Siri. L’assistant vocal
introduced in 2011 by the Apple firm surprised the tech world.
But now, between the Amazon Echo and Google Home, the situation is no longer the same.
even. Apple, to also avoid being sown by its competitors, therefore wants
with this dedicated chip, manage to increase the power and the possibilities of
AI on its devices:

For the moment, the artificial intelligence functions on the iPhone and
iPad are based on the processor chip and the graphics chip. Integrate and
using a dedicated chip could make it possible to have a power of
higher computation and therefore support more capable intelligence. That
could also increase the autonomy of the device.

This chip that Apple is currently developing in its laboratories would be
called theApple Neural Engine. It could underlie
features such as voice recognition or recognition of
faces.

Not content with improving Siri on iPhone, the chip would also be
welcome to the framework of autonomous driving systems, whose solution
Apple Car|https://cline.one/en/tech/ignace/tag/apple-car] currently in preparation for
Cupertino. Also, theiPhone 8
is expected with features related to augmented reality. And a chip
dedicated to artificial intelligence would then be more than necessary to
allow automatic processing in real time, for example, concerning
these augmented reality technologies and 3D environmental sensors
potentially present on future Apple smartphones.

The arrival of this Apple Neural Engine would therefore not really be a
surprise, especially since different competitors already have their dedicated in-house chip
to AI, like Qualcomm, which on its latest processor
Snapdragonintegrated a module for AI, but also Google,
with the chipTensor Processur Unit, specialist in particular in
image recognition and intelligent search algorithms.

Perhaps we will know more about this at the next conference.
introducing Apple's WWDC which will take place on June 5. The keynote
will be followed on
live.iphon.fr, obviously.

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Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.