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Apple's dead car project built the Neural Engine

Apple's Neural Engine, born from its failed car project, became the backbone of on-device AI. The M7 Ultra with 1.5TB of RAM could put Apple in the server inference market by 2027.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 13, 2026

Bar chart of local AI decode speeds on Apple Silicon. Qwen 3.6 27B on M5 Max: 28 tok/s baseline, 63 tok/s with MTPLX MTP, a 2.24x speedup.

AI for dummies

How MTPLX v2 makes local AI on Mac twice as fast

MTPLX v2 uses multi-token prediction to run local AI on Apple Silicon Macs up to 2.24x faster. Here is what beginners need to know.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 9, 2026