Apple's Next CEO Is the Engineer Who Built Its Chips
Tim Cook becomes executive chairman and John Ternus, the hardware engineer behind Apple Silicon, takes the CEO role on September 1 - a clear bet that chips beat software in the AI race.
Articles Tagged "Apple Silicon"
Best AI Home Workstations 2026 - Full Buying Guide
Complete buying guide for AI home workstations in 2026 - pre-built machines and DIY builds for running local LLMs from 3B to 70B+ models, with benchmarks, part lists, and price-tier comparisons.
A $900 RTX 3090 Now Beats an M5 Max at LLM Inference
Two researchers fused all 24 layers of Qwen 3.5-0.8B into a single CUDA kernel launch, making a five-year-old RTX 3090 deliver 1.8x the throughput of an M5 Max at equal or better efficiency. The gap was software, not silicon.
Apple M5 Max
Apple's flagship SoC with 40-core GPU, per-core Neural Accelerators, 614 GB/s bandwidth, and 4x AI performance over M4 Max.
Codex Runs Halo on Modern Macs in a Single Prompt
A developer used OpenAI's Codex agent to get Halo: Combat Evolved running on Apple Silicon through Wine - automated setup, dependency installation, and rendering fixes with no manual tweaking.
PersonaPlex 7B Runs Full-Duplex Speech on a Mac
A developer ported NVIDIA's PersonaPlex 7B speech-to-speech model to native Swift using MLX, running full-duplex conversation on Apple Silicon with no cloud, no Python, and faster-than-real-time inference.
MacBook Neo: Apple's iPhone Chip Lands in a $599 Mac
Apple's cheapest Mac ever packs the A18 Pro iPhone chip with a 16-core Neural Engine - but its 60 GB/s memory bandwidth puts a hard ceiling on what local models you can actually run.
Apple's M5 Pro and Max Make 70B Models Portable
Apple launches M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros with Neural Accelerators in every GPU core, 128GB unified memory, and 614GB/s bandwidth - enough to run Llama 70B on a laptop.
Metal GPU Programming - A Practical Guide for macOS Developers
A hands-on guide to Metal compute programming on Apple Silicon. Covers architecture, unified memory, real code examples in MSL and Swift, and how Metal compares to CUDA.
CUDA Programming - A Practical Guide for Software Engineers
A hands-on guide to CUDA programming for developers who know how to code but have never written a GPU kernel. Covers architecture, memory, real code examples, and Metal comparison.
Someone Reverse-Engineered Apple's Neural Engine and Trained a Model on It
A developer cracked Apple's undocumented ANE private APIs, measured its real throughput at 19 TFLOPS FP16 (not the marketed 38 TOPS), and trained a 109M-parameter transformer on hardware Apple designed exclusively for inference.
Mac Studio Clusters Now Run Trillion-Parameter Models for $40K
macOS RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 has turned four Mac Studios into a 1.5TB unified memory cluster that runs Kimi K2 at 25 tokens per second - a setup that would cost $780K with NVIDIA H100s.
