Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine

Eileen YoonHome  |  About  Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural EngineAug 10, 2026(5089 words)I stopped working on the reverse-engineered Apple Neural Engine (ANE) driver three years ago, upon a sad mini realization that the ANE block is just not that useful, and I could be doing more useful things, and moved onto upstreaming other, more useful, blocks. The ANE's architecture was too opinionated to build a general-purpose accelerator platform around it