Jeff Bier, co-founder of the Edge AI and Vision Alliance, interviews Daniel Firu, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Quadric, to learn how Quadric’s Chimera processor IP helps tackle the challenge of supporting the latest state-of-the-art deep neural network models in edge silicon devices. Bier and Firu explore the hurdles facing system and software developers who are building complex vision applications combining traditional algorithms with state-of-the-art ML models, and discuss how Quadric’s novel general-purpose neural processor (GPNPU) architecture aims to accelerate design productivity.