Apple’s Self-Driving Dream Built Its AI Chips | Tech News

Apple’s scrapped self-driving car project secretly fueled its AI revolution—by forcing them to build the Neural Engine, the brain behind on-device AI like Face ID and animated emojis. That early investment paid off, powering Macs with M-series chips and giving Apple a hardware edge in AI—even if its software lags. Now, Apple’s accelerating its AI chip strategy, skipping M6 to launch the M7 in early 2027 with a massively upgraded Neural Engine, and possibly an M7 Ultra for servers with 1.5TB RAM. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/8b32daa86337d052