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=== Consumer devices ===
AI accelerators are used in mobile devices such as Apple [[iPhone]]s, AMD [[AI engine|AI engines]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=Nick |date=2023-02-12 |title=Exploring the Versal AI Engines for Accelerating Stencil-based Atmospheric Advection Simulation |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543622.3573047 |journal=Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays |series=FPGA '23 |___location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=91–97 |doi=10.1145/3543622.3573047 |isbn=978-1-4503-9417-8|arxiv=2301.13016 }}</ref> in Versal and NPUs, [[Huawei]], and [[Google Pixel]] smartphones,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://consumer.huawei.com/en/press/news/2017/ifa2017-kirin970|title=HUAWEI Reveals the Future of Mobile AI at IFA}}</ref> and seen in many [[Apple silicon|Apple Silicon]], [[Qualcomm]], [[Samsung]], and [[Google Tensor]] smartphone processors.<ref>https://docs.qualcomm.com/bundle/publicresource/87-71408-1_REV_B_Snapdragon_8_gen_3_Mobile_Platform_Product_Brief.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=July 2025}}</ref>
 
It is more recently (circa 2022) added to computer processors from [[Intel]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intels-lunar-lake-processors-arriving-q3-2024.html|title=Intel's Lunar Lake Processors Arriving Q3 2024|website=Intel|date=May 20, 2024 }}</ref> [[AMD]],<ref>{{cite web|title=AMD XDNA Architecture|url=https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/xdna.html}}</ref> and [[Apple silicon]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Deploying Transformers on the Apple Neural Engine |url=https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-transformers |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=Apple Machine Learning Research |language=en-US}}</ref> All models of Intel [[Meteor Lake]] processors have a built-in ''versatile processor unit'' (''VPU'') for accelerating [[statistical inference|inference]] for computer vision and deep learning.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-to-bring-a-vpu-processor-unit-to-14th-gen-meteor-lake-chips|title=Intel to Bring a 'VPU' Processor Unit to 14th Gen Meteor Lake Chips|website=PCMAG|date=August 2022 }}</ref>