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Apple has updated the 14-inch MacBook Pro with its new M6 chip, which the company says delivers 30 percent faster graphics and a 25 percent boost to AI workloads compared to the M5 version. The laptop also gains Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and up to 24 hours of battery life, with 16GB of unified memory as standard and storage starting at 1TB.
Apple unveiled a new iMac generation powered by its M6 chip, skipping the M5 generation entirely. The base model starts at $1,499 with a 10-core CPU/GPU, while a $1,699 version offers 12-core CPU and GPU configurations. Preorders begin October 28th with availability starting November 6th.
A developer who abandoned reverse-engineering Apple's Neural Engine (ANE) three years ago has resumed the project, this time focused on mapping its full internal architecture rather than making it usable via a Linux driver. The renewed effort was prompted by Apple's M5 chip, which emphasizes LLM performance and integrates ANE cores directly into the GPU, signaling the decline of the standalone neural processing unit design that began with the A11 Bionic in 2017.
A developer profiling Apple's M3 Neural Engine found an RTL performance bug that cuts DRAM weight-streaming speed from a normal 45-60 GB/s down to just 17-19 GB/s whenever a model's total weight size lands on an exact multiple of 1 MiB, affecting 7 of the 15 models in the ANEMLL project. By rerouting around the flawed speculative prefetch path in the kernel's DMA engine, the developer restored full throughput, more than doubling token generation speeds for Llama 3.2 1B and Qwen3-8B.