Apple’s A11 Neural Engine enabled Face ID and Animoji in 2017; the A17 Pro’s 16-core NPU reached 35 TOPS in 2023. Google Pixel 8, Tesla’s HW4, and NVIDIA Drive Thor now run AI models directly on devices, with Drive Thor hitting up to 2000 TOPS. Qualcomm, MediaTek, Intel, and AMD have all launched NPUs or TPUs powering speech, photo, and translation features without cloud reliance.