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  • Apple developing dedicated AI chip called Apple Neural Engine

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    radarthekat said:
    dysamoria said:
    My prediction of computers going back to more dedicated/custom chips seems to be holding true...

    however: how does adding a chip reduce battery drain?
    Simple.  Instead of taxing the main CPU to perform, for example, graphics intensive tasks that require a lot of clock cycles, graphics tasks are offloaded to a GPU that is designed to be optimized for image and video manipulation, which can be done in a significantly different, and much more parallel manner due to an image file being a discrete and known entity; processing can be done on multiple portions of an image at the same time, without effecting work being done on other portions.  In this manner a GPU can be more energy efficient in doing the same task that a CPU would otherwise need to crunch through sequentially.  Same likely holds true for an AI chip, which would likely take the form of a neural network, optimized for quickly crunching a certain type of task, and therefore much more energy efficient at performing that task. 
    CPUs aren't designed to handle anything a GPU does in its sleep. The custom DSP chip that the AI will be based on will have a very low power design specifically meant to handle very vectorized operations that are big energy wasters on a CPU. The DSP is better optimized to handle FFT and Langrange multipliers, at a fraction of the power and total branches necessary inside a CPU.
    tallest skilpscooter63dysamoria

  • Apple upgrades 2013 Mac Pros with more cores & faster GPUs

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    Apple will incorporate Vega2 GPGPUs from AMD and those come out late Fall 2017. The successor to Ryzen will be out early 2018. Good timing. Apple will be moving away from Thunderbolt to avoid being handcuffed to Intel.
    williamlondon

  • Apple officially named as founding member of Partnership for AI, Siri founder named to boa...

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    It's a well known fact by top Physicists around the globe that the state of AI is that of the mind of a Fruit Fly. The Singularity is nowhere on the horizon. In fact, the more they explore the parallels of the mind it seems more natural to develop nanomachines to enhance Humanity that to attempt to replace it.
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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook sells another $3.6M in company stock

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    hammeroftruth said:
    cali said:
    dix99 said:
    Oh oh, jony's told him a retirement date & he's getting out before it's announced & the stock tanks
    Apple is doomed?
    If they are then it's not Jony's fault. There's no one there to push him like Steve did.  They're is no conflict to inspire each other. They got rid of Forestall and all the public thinks is that he f'd up maps. He wasn't a lightweight since he was with Jobs since the NEXT days. Sure he was hated by Ives, Federigi, Faddell, that idiot Schiller, and probably Cook, but Jobs liked him because out of conflict came these beautiful products. They were all trying to out do each other and pushed each other to make the best products they could.  Now it's just a big circle jerk. They want to be stylish over functionality. 

    You can tell that the talent that you never knew that made everything work together so seamlessly has moved on.  There is nobody to throw a tantrum when something doesn't work. 
    It took an outside entity to show Apple there is something wrong with their brand new computers, and it was the OS. I doubt anybody lost their job over it too. 

    This is the nicer Cook era...

    Just for clarification sake, Federighi and Forstall were both my colleagues at NeXT and Apple. Of the two, Craig was the bigger dick [egoist] than Scott. Scott was demanding while Craig who aided with EOF was not that vital to NeXT, unlike Forstall who was key on AppKit for Openstep and OS X. Craig's ego ballooned when Serlet retired from Apple and he was given a way too prominent role.

    He doesn't show up at the NeXT reunions unlike Scott who does when he's in the area.
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  • Apple.com switches web font from Myriad to San Francisco

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    The weight is too thick on the San Fran.
    williamlondonmelodyof1974