A developer released a portable profiler that measures Apple Neural Engine KernelDMA prefetch behavior across M1, M3, M4, and M5 chips by timing the private _ANEClient evaluateWithModel call (eval_us)…
Apple's M6 MacBook Pro, launching this fall with a 14-inch screen, will feature a Dual 16-core Neural Engine providing up to 2x peak compute over previous generations, a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU wi…
Nvidia launched the RTX Spark Arm-based superchip at Computex Taipei, targeting high-end laptops priced between $3,000 and $4,000 and capable of running 120-billion-parameter large language models loc…
BLAKE3, a secure hash function, now runs more than twice as fast on Apple Silicon after the discovery of unannounced wide-vector SIMD capabilities in Apple M4 and M5 chips, accessed via the SMSTART in…
Apple's M5 chip, announced October 2025, introduces a Neural Accelerator in every GPU core, making prompt processing 3.3 to 4.1 times faster than the M4, according to Apple's MLX benchmarks. Token gen…
Apple's upcoming M6 chip, expected in 2026, will be built on TSMC's first-generation 2nm process with gate-all-around nanosheet transistors, featuring a 12-core CPU with 2 super cores, a dual 16-core …
Apple announced the M6 chip, its first built using a 2-nanometer process, featuring a Dual 16-core Neural Engine and up to 2x the peak compute of previous generations. The M6 delivers up to 1.2x faste…
Apple Inc. unveiled the new Mac mini starting at $900, a $100 price increase over the previous model, built specifically for the on-device AI users who caused the M4 version to sell out. The M6 chip, …
Apple is preparing to launch an updated Mac mini as soon as this week, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, citing unnamed sources. The new model, which could be the last product announced under CEO …
Apple Inc. is reportedly preparing to release a surprise new line of Mac Mini computers, possibly within days, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, citing people familiar with the matter. The new Mac…
Bloomberg reports Apple could release a new Mac mini as soon as the coming days, potentially ahead of its September iPhone event, marking the first update in almost two years amid surging demand for l…
JetBrains has released Junie Local, an on-device version of its AI coding agent that runs entirely on supported Macs without cloud inference or token charges. The tool uses a JetBrains-tuned, 4-bit qu…
A developer who previously worked on a reverse-engineered Apple Neural Engine (ANE) driver for Linux has resumed the project, aiming to map the full internal architecture of the M1 ANE, three years af…
Apple's M6 MacBook Pro is expected to ship in fall 2026, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, with the M6 chip built on TSMC's 2nm process and featuring a redesigned GPU with up to 12 cores, updated …
Apple's M5 MacBook Air, reviewed by Mashable, earns a Mashable Choice Award despite a price increase from $1,099 to $1,299 for the 13-inch model due to the global memory crisis. The laptop features an…
Apple's M5 generation introduces a dedicated Neural Accelerator on every GPU core, and BaseRT, a native Metal inference runtime, exploits these units to deliver up to 6.4× higher prompt-processing thr…
Apple will launch its M6 chip later this year with up to 12 GPU cores and 200 GB/s memory bandwidth, but will skip higher-end Pro, Max, and Ultra variants for the first time in the Apple Silicon era, …
Apple announced on June 26 that it will skip the M6 Pro and M6 Max chip variants to fast-track an AI-optimized M7 chip family expected in 2027, while locking in a $30 billion deal with Broadcom for US…
Apple's upcoming A20 Pro chip, expected to power the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra, will be the company's first 2nm processor, offering higher transistor density and improved performance and power ef…
Amazon is selling Apple's 13-inch iPad Pro with an M5 chip for $1,199, which is $300 off the new price and $100 less than before Apple's recent price hike. The deal offers 256GB of storage and the Ult…