Apple’s dropped car project forged a powerhouse AI chip lineage

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Apple’s self-driving car effort never shipped, but it spurred the Neural Engine and a lineage of on-device AI hardware—from the iPhone X’s A11 Bionic to the M-series—making Apple a hardware-driven AI player. The company is accelerating the M7 line, skipping M6 variants, with the M7 Ultra expected to power a new server product and upgrade Neural Engine capabilities, including up to 1.5TB RAM.
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