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Apple vice-presidents Phill Shiller and Johny Srouji gave a short interview to Mashable; they talked about the process of developing the A11 Bionic chip.
As it turned out, the development of a new generation processor began back in the days of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, which has been shipped with the A8 chip.
According to Srouji, several years ago the company did not even think about computer training and artificial intelligence. Then they just bet on the development of technology for three years.
Plans for the future technology development have always changed, while new people and new ideas arrived. Srouji noted that the A11 Bionic chip is the most efficient in complex tasks requiring multiple cores.
The chip also has a built-in Apple neural engine, used in Face ID and Animoji, as well as other machine learning algorithms. According to Shiller, it can handle up to 600 billion operations per second.
The engine is used not only to recognise faces but also objects of augmented reality. And all this with the help of neural networks, machine learning or in-depth learning (part of machine learning).
Heads of the company made a separate accent that the decision to integrate the engine into the mathematical processor, not the graphics processor, is due to increased energy efficiency.
