Apple’s car-building initiative, which spanned over a decade and involved billions of dollars in investment, was discontinued in 2024 and has since been labeled as the company’s ‘biggest failure.’ Yet, the technological advancements garnered from this ambitious project are now being seamlessly woven into the design of its forthcoming processors—the M7 and M8 chips. Rather than solely focusing on boosting speed or enhancing energy efficiency, these chips are engineered with a heightened emphasis on AI acceleration capabilities. Apple has ingeniously repurposed the foundational frameworks initially developed for autonomous driving vehicles, including model architecture and sensor data processing logic, into chip design. As a result, AI support has become a paramount feature of the M7 and M8 chips, with memory bandwidth and instruction sets meticulously optimized for large-scale model operations.