CPU_FLAGS_ARM=neon is meant for ARM 32-bit NEON. For all practical purposes, 64-bit NEON is always available on arm64, so it should just be always enabled, not via the use.masked cpu_flags_arm_neon. It's masked, because it tends to enable 32-bit NEON in packages and break on arm64. Please pass -Dintrinsics=enabled on arm64 unconditionally (other than the arch flag)