{"id":57729,"date":"2017-05-27T01:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T08:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/apple-developing-apple-neural-engine-chip-to-power-ai-in-ios-devices"},"modified":"2017-05-27T01:22:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T08:22:41","slug":"apple-developing-apple-neural-engine-chip-to-power-ai-in-ios-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/apple-developing-apple-neural-engine-chip-to-power-ai-in-ios-devices","title":{"rendered":"Apple Developing \u2018Apple Neural Engine\u2019 Chip to Power AI in iOS Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-developing-apple-neural-engine-chip-to-power-ai-in-ios-devices3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-developing-apple-neural-engine-chip-to-power-ai-in-ios-devices2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Apple is developing a dedicated processor that will be used to handle AI-related tasks like facial and speech recognition in its products, reports <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-05-26\/apple-said-to-plan-dedicated-chip-to-power-ai-on-devices\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/em>. Citing a source with knowledge of Apple\u2019s plans, the site says the chip is known internally as the \u201cApple Neural Engine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apple plans to use the chip, which would work alongside the standard processor and the graphics chip, to add more advanced artificial intelligence capabilities into its devices and to offload demanding AI processing tasks that can impact battery life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An AI-enabled processor would help Cupertino, California-based Apple integrate more advanced capabilities into devices, particularly cars that drive themselves and gadgets that run augmented reality, the technology that superimposes graphics and other information onto a person\u2019s view of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/26\/apple-neural-engine-ai-chip\/\">https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/26\/apple-neural-engine-ai-chip\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is developing a dedicated processor that will be used to handle AI-related tasks like facial and speech recognition in its products, reports Bloomberg. Citing a source with knowledge of Apple\u2019s plans, the site says the chip is known internally as the \u201cApple Neural Engine.\u201d Apple plans to use the chip, which would work alongside [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}