[gield]

Face ID, taking pictures, Siri, ARKit, voice-to-text transcription, face recognition and OCR in photos, noise filtering, ...

[cubefox]

These have been possible in much smaller smartphone chips for years.

[stouset]

Possible != energy efficient, which is important for mobile devices.

[KerrAvon]

Yes, they have.

> September 12, 2017; 7 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A11#Neural_Engine

[gield]

Indeed, but the neural engine does this faster and using heavier models. For example, on-device Siri was not possible until the introduction of the neural engine in 2017.