Hardware
What is Neural Engine?
A dedicated hardware block in Apple Silicon optimized for machine learning operations. The M5 Max's Neural Engine can process up to 38 trillion operations per second. While most LLM inference currently runs on the GPU cores via Metal, the Neural Engine is increasingly used for prompt processing and the M5 Max integrates Neural Accelerators directly into GPU cores for AI-specific computation.
Where Neural Engine comes up on LLMCheck
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