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leothecoolyesterday at 6:54 PM1 replyview on HN

If apple puts an inference SOC in their phone, the datacenters are all dead.


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bigyabaiyesterday at 9:15 PM

Truly, people have been saying this since 2017 and the Apple Neural Engine has proven them wrong time immemorial.

Apple's own desktops, with the fastest Apple Silicon GPUs and TDPs 20x higher than an iPhone still can't compete for real-world datacenter use even with RDNA clustering. Apple's GPGPU architecture is behind AMD at this point, there's a reason why Apple Intelligence is critically reliant on Nvidia and Google to provide inference backends.