Is R2021a configured to automatically use Apple M1 chip for GPU and Neural Engine?

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The Apple M1 chip describes the following specs of its chip:
  • 8-core CPU with 4 perform­ance cores and 4 efficiency cores
  • 7-core GPU/8-core GPU
  • 16-core Neural Engine
Will the deep learning toolbox automatically use Apple M1 chip for GPU and Neural Engine?

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Joss Knight
Joss Knight on 4 Jun 2021
No. MATLAB only supports NVIDIA GPUs for computation.
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Joss Knight
Joss Knight on 21 Dec 2021
Well, it's been an interesting discussion and I'll certainly add this user story to the other cases for widening support for accelerators including Apple M1, AMD, Intel, TPU and others.
Peter Felfer
Peter Felfer on 27 Jan 2022
I used to use the GPGPU a lot when it was available on my Mac, not because of long running siumulations, but because it makes my calculations (3D data reconstruction) that require user interaction interactive. This is not possible (still not) using the CPU. Maybe another very important aspect of having Mac GPGPU support.

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