The M5's Most Important Feature Isn't in Any Benchmark

Go to https://surfshark.com/tiffintech or use code TIFFINTECH at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Apple's M5 chip has a 16-core Neural Engine that barely gets mentioned in reviews. But Apple has been making it bigger every generation since 2017. Other chip companies are doing the exact same thing. When every major silicon maker starts dedicating more transistors to the same component, that's not a coincidence. You can read their bet in the chip itself. This video traces the evolution of Apple's Neural Engine from its first 2-core version in the iPhone X all the way to the M5 MacBook Pro. Eight years of investment, generation after generation. Then I look at Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite and Intel's Lunar Lake and show you the same pattern playing out across the entire industry. Three companies, three different business models, all converging on dedicated AI hardware. I also break down why Apple's approach to chip design is structurally different from everyone else in the PC space. They design the chip, the memory, the operating system, and the developer frameworks. One company, full vertical. Nobody else controls that much of the stack, and it changes what's architecturally possible. The video ends with the real question underneath all of this: the split between cloud AI and on-device AI, and what that means if you build software. Timestamps 00:00 The part of this chip nobody talks about 01:08 Sponsor Surfshark VPN 02:12 How Apple left Intel and built its own silicon 03:04 Why Apple controls the chip, the OS, and the frameworks 03:52 What is the Neural Engine inside the M5 05:21 Apple Neural Engine evolution 2017 to 2025 07:16 On device AI vs cloud AI explained 11:13 What Apple Qualcomm and Intel chip roadmaps tell you