What new instructions are in the M4 chip?
Asked on 07/31/2024
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The new instructions in the M4 chip were not explicitly detailed in the provided context. However, there are several enhancements and optimizations mentioned for Apple silicon, particularly in the context of machine learning and AI models. These include:
- Stateful KV Cache: This improves the efficiency of key and value preparation for attention mechanisms in transformer models.
- Fused Representation for Scaled Dot Product Attention (SDPA): This optimization allows for more efficient computation by taking inputs all at once, rather than breaking them into smaller operations.
- Model Compression Techniques: New techniques have been introduced to optimize models for Apple hardware, balancing storage size, latency, and accuracy.
For more detailed information on these optimizations, you can refer to the following sessions:
- Bring your machine learning and AI models to Apple silicon (17:08)
- Train your machine learning and AI models on Apple GPUs (01:36)
If you need more specific details about the M4 chip instructions, you might want to check the full sessions or additional resources provided by Apple.
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