Developer Uses Apple Neural Engine to Rotate Donuts, Proving Non-AI Utility
ssh4net · x · 2026-08-26
A developer exposed the Apple Neural Engine (ANE) API, previously restricted to AI tasks. Leveraging this PoC, they used Claude to build a "donut rotator" running on the ANE, demonstrating the potential of this 38 trillion ops/second chip for non-AI purposes like prime number calculation.
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