| Much to the chagrin of its suppliers, Apple has long been working towards making all its own chips. This goal now applies to its Artificial Intelligence hardware, too. According to Bloomberg, the Cupertino company is working on a processor specifically designed to improve the performance of AI-related tasks such as speech and image recognition within its devices. Apple has refused to comment, but Bloomberg claims the project will be called the Apple Neural Engine. Google has already made a similar move with the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which powers AI-related tasks in the search giant's datacentres. Read the rest of this week's tech news roundup here. |
