Apple

Discovery timeline

Items with an evidence label, oldest first (labels: what they mean). Unlabelled items (before the labels began) are listed below by date.

1. 25 OctPreprintEvaluating the Applicability of LLM Inference Optimizations on Apple Silicon

25 October 2026

• Evaluating the Applicability of LLM Inference Optimizations on Apple Silicon

  Tests common LLM inference speed-ups on Apple Silicon: KV-cache pruning gave up to 1.75× gains, while speculative decoding actually slowed throughput.

  In the issue · 41 AI Consumer Devices & Wearables · arXiv 2610.31479 · Evidence: Preprint

18 October 2026

• Battle for TSMC capacity

  Nvidia, Apple and Broadcom are in a fierce contest for TSMC's chipmaking capacity.

  In the issue · 36 AI Semiconductors · CNBC