Tag: memory bandwidth

  • Apple’s A20 Pro Doubles the Neural Engine to 32 Cores

    Apple’s A20 Pro Doubles the Neural Engine to 32 Cores

    On September 9, 2026, Apple announced the A20 Pro — the first smartphone SoC built on a 2-nanometer process, and the first A-series chip to ship a 32-core Neural Engine. Apple describes the design as a “Dual 16-core Neural Engine” delivering double the AI processing power of the A19 Pro, paired with a 50 percent […]

  • Apple’s M5 Ultra Mac Studio: 512GB of Unified Memory for Local AI

    Apple’s M5 Ultra Mac Studio: 512GB of Unified Memory for Local AI

    On August 25, 2026, Apple announced a new Mac Studio built around the M5 Max and the quad-die M5 Ultra — a desktop configurable with up to 512GB of unified memory and 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth. Apple is pitching it explicitly at people running large language models locally: the company says the M5 Ultra configuration […]

  • Xiaomi Shows AI Cube Prototype: Three Chips, 1.22TB/s

    Xiaomi Shows AI Cube Prototype: Three Chips, 1.22TB/s

    Xiaomi unveiled the AI Cube Prototype at its Xuanjie chip technical briefing on August 24, 2026 — an engineering-sample mini PC built around three of the company’s own chips at once, aimed squarely at running large language models locally. The headline number is the 1.22 TB/s bandwidth of the new Xuanjie O100 accelerator, but the […]