alt Hacker News> when these neural engines kick in in open source software?
It mostly doesn't because NPUs are bespoke and vendor-specific (which incents neglect by software devs working on open source numerics and ML/AI infrastructure), and the Apple ANE is no exception. Part of this effort is most likely about fixing that for the specific case of the Apple ANE.
Part of which effort? The Reverse engineering is so it can be used blog article?
I just think: great it seems like I'm paying for a hardware accelerator that makes Siri go faster. And I use siri on my laptop exactly 0 times in the last infinite years.