My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math
3 days ago
- #iPhone
- #Hardware Defect
- #Machine Learning
- The iPhone 16 Pro Max produces incorrect numerical outputs when running MLX LLMs, unlike the iPhone 15 Pro and MacBook Pro which work fine.
- The issue was traced to a hardware defect in the Neural Engine or related ML components of the iPhone 16 Pro Max.
- Initial debugging involved comparing tensor outputs between devices, revealing significant discrepancies in values.
- The problem was not software-related, as the same code worked correctly on other devices.
- The defective iPhone 16 Pro Max was likely a replacement unit with underlying hardware issues.
- The experience highlighted the importance of considering hardware issues during debugging.