[Feature Request] Can we report Apple Neural Engine (ANE) usage stats separately from GPU?

[solidcode79]

Hi, first of all, thanks for Stats.

It’s an essential tool for understanding real-world workload behavior on Apple Silicon.

I wanted to start a discussion around Neural Engine (ANE) visibility, not as a concrete feature request yet, but more as a feasibility question.

Motivation

For example, when running local inference (Ollama, LM Studio, etc.), I consistently see:
GPU usage → ~100%
CPU usage → very low
Memory pressure → consistent with the loaded model
This matches expectations and is extremely useful feedback.

Question

Conceptually, the ANE is the third major domain on Apple Silicon (CPU / GPU / ANE). If workloads ever meaningfully hit these cores, having some visibility, similar to CPU/GPU, would help users reason.

From what I understand so far (please correct me if I’m wrong):

• The Neural Engine is real, dedicated silicon (not just marketing)
• macOS may not expose a meaningful system-wide utilization signal for ANE, unlike CPU/GPU
  So the core question is:
  Does ANE have any visibility like /proc/stats on linux?
  Also, does the GPU stats right now bundle the ANE stats internally?

Thanks again for the project.
As you know M5 specs: 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine

[exelban]

As I know there is no good way to obtain this data from the macOS, but maybe someone will propose something.