Neural Engine is a series of

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s designed for machine learning by

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. The first SoC including Neural Engine is

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introduced in 2017. Since then, all Apple A series SoCs have Neural Engine. In 2020, Apple introduced the

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for Mac and all Apple M series SoCs have Neural Engine. Apple has stated the Neural Engine in the M4 can perform 38 trillion operations per second (TOPS), an improvement over the 18 TOPS in the M3.

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