{"id":3207,"date":"2026-07-12T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/apples-failed-self-driving-car-program-left-a-legacy-of-powerful-ai-chips\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:27:06","slug":"apples-failed-self-driving-car-program-left-a-legacy-of-powerful-ai-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/apples-failed-self-driving-car-program-left-a-legacy-of-powerful-ai-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/apple_chips.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple&rsquo;s self-driving car program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/3\/3\/24085995\/apple-car-project-titan-timeline-driverless-ev-doomed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">never really got off the ground<\/a>, but it may have been what made the company&rsquo;s chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/12\/10\/16758160\/apple-machine-learning-autonomous-car-project-titan-ruslan-salakhutdinov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">powerful on-device AI processing<\/a>. While the car processor was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24085629\/apple-car-dead-project-titan-ev-driverless-robotaxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">never finished<\/a>, as Mark Gurman details in his latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-07-12\/apple-s-chip-plans-m6-m7-pro-m7-max-m7-ultra-m8-details-touch-macbook-pro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Power On<\/em><\/a> newsletter, it did lead to the development of the Neural Engine, the backbone of Apple&rsquo;s on-device AI processing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Neural Engine made its debut with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/9\/13\/16300464\/apple-iphone-x-ai-neural-engine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iPhone X and the A11 Bionic<\/a>. In those early days, it was primarily used for computer vision, powering FaceID, Animoji, and a \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/964519\/apple-silicon-self-driving-car-ai-m7-ultra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&rsquo;s self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company&rsquo;s chips [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}