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INSIDE THE M4 APPLE NEURAL ENGINE, PART 1: REVERSE ENGINEERING

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This dev collaboratively reverse-engineered Apple's M4 Neural Engine (ANE), bypassing CoreML to directly program the hardware and understand its undocumented architecture. They successfully mapped the software stack, discovered private APIs, cracked the binary format, and developed a method for direct compilation and execution on the ANE.