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Quadric’s Chimera GPNPU Named Best Edge AI Processor IP by Edge AI and Vision Alliance

Burlingame, CA – April 21, 2025 – Quadric® today announced that its ChimeraTM QC general-purpose neural processing unit (GPNPU) was named the 2025 best edge AI processor IP by the Edge AI and Vision AllianceTM. The annual Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Awards celebrate the top building-block components that enable edge AI […]

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Edge AI and Vision Alliance™ Announces 2025 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year™ and AI Innovation Award™ Winners

Awards Celebrate Innovation and Achievement in Computer Vision and Edge AI SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 21, 2025 — The Edge AI and Vision Alliance today announced the 2025 winners of the Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Awards and the AI Innovation Awards. The Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Awards

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2025 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award Winner Showcase: Quadric (Edge AI Processor IP)

Quadric’s Chimera QC Series GPNPU Processors has been awarded the 2025 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award in the Edge AI Processors IP category. The Chimera GPNPU family, which scales up to 800 TOPs, is the only fully C++ programmable neural processor solution that can run complete AI and machine learning models

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Alliance Members at 2025 CES

The Edge AI and Vision Alliance 2025 CES Directory for game-changing computer vision and AI technologies Many Alliance Member companies will be showing off the latest building-block technologies that enable new capabilities for machines that see! CES is huge so we’ve created a handy checklist of these companies and where to find them including how

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Quadric’s 3rd Generation Chimera GPNPU Product Family Expands to 864 TOPs, Adds Automotive-grade Safety Enhanced Versions

Chimera QC Series GPNPUs add more configurability, scales single cores to over 100 TOPs New multicore cluster QC-M family scales up to 864 TOPs Compute density increases TOPs/mm2 up to 2.7X greater than previous generation Adds floating point and 4-bit weight support Safety Enhanced Versions add ASIL-B/D compatible versions for automotive designs Burlingame, CA – July

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“Meeting the Critical Needs of Accuracy, Performance and Adaptability in Embedded Neural Networks,” a Presentation from Quadric

Aman Sikka, Chief Architect at Quadric, presents the “Meeting the Critical Needs of Accuracy, Performance and Adaptability in Embedded Neural Networks” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. In this presentation, Sikka explores the challenges of accuracy and performance when implementing quantized machine learning inference algorithms on embedded systems. He explains how the thoughtful

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Edge AI and Vision Alliance Interview with Quadric

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

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Quadric’s New Chimera GPNPU Processor IP Blends NPU and DSP into New Category of Hybrid SoC Processor

One architecture for ML inference plus pre-and-post processing Simplifies SoC hardware design – single core ML subsystem eliminates multicore challenges Greatly simplifies programming, with NN graphs and C++ code merged into a single stream Burlingame, CA – November 1, 2022 – Quadric today introduced Chimera™, the first family of general-purpose neural processors (GPNPUs), a semiconductor

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Quadric Appoints Former Cadence VP Dhanendra Jani as New VP of Engineering

Experienced Semiconductor IP Engineering Leader Adds Deep Processor Design Expertise to Fast Growing Team Burlingame, CA – October 11, 2022 – Quadric, the GPNPU intellectual property (IP) licensor, today announced that Dhanendra Jani, a former vice president of engineering at Cadence, has joined the company’s executive team as vice president of engineering.  This new role

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“Accelerate All Your Algorithms with the quadric q16 Processor,” a Presentation from Quadric

Daniel Firu, Co-founder and CPO of Quadric, presents the “Accelerate All Your Algorithms with the quadric q16 Processor,” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. As edge and embedded vision applications increasingly incorporate neural networks, developers are looking to add neural network accelerator functionality to their systems. There is just one problem: we need

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