About Quadric

Artificial Intelligence (AI) enhances the functionality of devices used in many applications – autonomous vehicles, industrial robots, remote controls, game consoles, smartphones, and more. Machine Learning (ML) is a subset of the broader category of AI. By using ML models, which are trained by sifting through enormous amounts of historical data to discover patterns, devices can perform amazing tasks without being explicitly programmed.

ML models are created using known labeled datasets (training phase) and are subsequently used to make predictions when presented with new, unknown data in a live deployment scenario (inference). Because an enormous amount of computing resources are required both for training and inference, a dedicated AI / ML compute resource is now vital in most new systems to handle AI workloads.

For most high-volume consumer products, chips are designed with tight cost, power, and size limitations. This is the market Quadric serves with innovative semiconductor intellectual property (IP) building blocks. Our AI-optimized Chimera processors allow companies to rapidly build leading-edge SoCs and more easily write application code for those chips.

After proving the innovative Chimera architecture in 2021 by producing a test chip, Quadric introduced its first licensable IP product – the industry’s first GPNPU (general purpose Neural Processing Unit) in November of 2022, and began product deliveries in Q2 2023.

In 2024, Quadric introduced its third generation Chimera GPNPUs with more feature options as well as automotive safety grade variants.  With more than 1000 hardware configurations, there is a Chimera processor suited to every high-volume inference application.