After yesterday’s explanation of the Apple Neural Engine (ANE) in M1 series Macs, it’s time to go in search of this elusive part of Apple Silicon chips, and discover how it’s used.

So far, all I have seen of the ANE are some entries in the log, and claims for how much it can accelerate Machine Learning (ML). The ANE first makes its appearance early during the kernel phase of the boot process, initially through its Load Balancer, which is initialised with
virtual bool H1xANELoadBalancer::init(OSDictionary *) WE are here: H1xANELoadBalancer: 30
H1xANELoadBalancer::probe
virtual IOService *H1xANELoadBalancer::probe(IOService *, SInt32 *) WE are here: H1xANELoadBalancer: 51, res: