Today, not only Intel, IBM and NVIDIA dream of breakthroughs in the sphere of artificial intelligence systems. It came to the creation of specialized hardware solutions by Google and Qualcomm. For Apple to stay away, it would be the upper hand of self-confidence, and so the corporation began developing its own specialized processor for artificial intelligence, as Bloomberg notes with reference to informed sources. Apple officially refuses to comment on this topic.
According to the source, the new processor will unload the central processor and graphics system of future Apple devices in terms of processing tasks related to artificial intelligence. Recognition of voice and persons, processing of search queries and predictive input from the keyboard - all this will be done by the new auxiliary processor. It is assumed that the transfer of resource-intensive tasks of this type to a special processor will reduce the overall level of power consumption and increase the battery life of the mobile device. The first new processor should try on Apple's smartphones, but in what generation is not specified. Prototypes of such devices already exist, as sources assure.
Third-party application developers will be granted access to the appropriate tools. It is expected that the new processor Apple will find application in the technologies of augmented reality. The company has repeatedly hinted that it believes it is the augmented reality market segment with great potential, and virtual reality has a more narrow entertainment application.