A11 bionic neural engine: how did they push a neural network engine into a piece of iron?

Question

iPhone

Gentlemen, the iPhone X has been announced. Interested in statements about the neural network hardware engine inside A11:
The new A11 Bionic neural engine is a dual-core design and performs up to 600 billion operations per second for real-time processing. A11 Bionic neural engine is designed for specific machine learning algorithms and enables Face ID, Animoji and other features.
How is it implemented? How narrow is the Neural Engine? Will Apple engineers enslave us with a giant distributed network?

Answer 1

Well, let's start with the fact that the same A11 Bionic processor with one more processor for neural networks was announced not only in the 10th iPhone, but also in 8 and 8 plus.