YES! Someone reverse-engineered Apple's Neural Engine and trained a neural network on it.
Apple never allowed this. ANE is inference-only. No public API, no docs.
They cracked it open anyway.
Why it matters:
• M4 ANE = 6.6 TFLOPS/W vs 0.08 for an A100 (80× more efficient)
• "38 TOPS" is a lie - real throughput is 19 TFLOPS FP16
• Your Mac mini has this chip sitting mostly idle
Translation: local AI inference that's faster AND uses almost no power.
Still early research but the door is now open.
→ http://github.com/maderix/ANE
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