#Apple Silicon

Your macOS VM's GPU Was Never Slow, Just Mislabeled

A shim that lies to Metal about GPU capabilities recovers near-bare-metal llama.cpp speeds inside Apple Silicon VMs.

Article · 2d ago1

Local Video Generation Gets Its llama.cpp Moment

antirez's h3.c renders MiniMax's open 33B video-and-audio model in about 75 seconds on Apple Silicon.

Article · 2d ago4

QEMU Finally Gets Real DirectX 11 Acceleration

UTM's Triton driver implements the Windows DDI layer itself, unlocking accelerated desktops and games in open-source VMs.

Article · 5d ago0

Intel's 18A Just Killed the ARM Efficiency Myth

A $699 Dell out-sips Apple's cheapest MacBook per watt — here's what that actually proves.

Article · 5d ago0

Your SSD Is the New VRAM for Local LLMs

Swiftlet streams sparse Qwen experts off disk, fitting an 80B model into 4.3 GB of Mac RAM.

Article · 1w ago1

Your SSD Is the New VRAM

Swiftlet streams MoE experts from SSD, fitting an 80B Qwen in 4.3GB of RAM — and a 35B on an iPhone.

Article · 1w ago1

A 26B Model in 2 GB of RAM, Courtesy of Your SSD

TurboFieldfare streams Gemma 4's experts from flash, and the trick will outlive the tool.

Article · 2w ago2

JDK 25 Is the Last Java LTS for Intel Macs

JEP 541 deprecates the macOS/x64 port, and OpenJDK's track record says removal comes fast.

Article · 2w ago0

The MLX Crowd Finally Gets Its Own LM Studio

mlx-vlm maintainer Prince Canuma ships Nativ, an open-source Mac app built to feed local models to coding agents.

Article · 3w ago6

The mlx-vlm Maintainer Just Came for LM Studio's Lunch

Nativ is an MIT-licensed macOS app from the developer whose inference code already powers rival local-AI frontends.

Article · 3w ago5

Why Mini PCs Run 70B Models That Discrete GPUs Can't

Unified memory architectures solve the local LLM capacity bottleneck on a budget, but developers must accept a steep bandwidth penalty.

Article · 1mo ago0

Apple Fast-Tracks M7 Silicon to Rewrite On-Device AI Limits

Skipping high-end M6 chips forces developers to target a massive leap in memory bandwidth and Neural Engine capacity.

Article · 1mo ago0

Quantize and Run Llama 3.2 on Apple Silicon with llama.cpp

Build llama.cpp with Metal, convert Llama 3.2 3B to Q4_K_M GGUF, and benchmark real prompt-processing and generation throughput on your specific chip.

Tutorial · 1mo ago0

Apple Core AI and the Local LLM Tax

Apple's new Core AI framework optimizes generative models for Apple Silicon, but developers must navigate compilation and specialization hurdles.

Article · 1mo ago1

Indexing 669 GB of Video Locally on Apple Silicon

How developers are leveraging open-source ML models to analyze, search, and edit massive personal video archives locally.

Article · 1mo ago2