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(April 24, 2025) Semiconductor Engineering - For a lot of the architectures for the deployment of inference models, people have chosen very inflexible, fixed-function accelerators of AI, and that’s the trap. If you look at the set of models today and try to build something that accelerates those and makes them low-power and efficient, and then the state-of-the-art model changes in two years, you could be in trouble. You could wind up with a chip that you spent a lot of money developing, and it can’t run the latest thing, and now you’re dead in the water.

(Edge AI and Vision Alliance) April 21, 2025 - The Chimera processor solves this problem – it’s easy to integrate and fully programmable, handling all operations in one unified stream. This allows us to run any AI model, future-proofing your investment even when models change.

(April 10, 2025) Semiconductor Engineering - Many models use nothing but ReLU, and that was standard for many of the early vision models. “With the exception of YOLO models, you have only ReLUs,” said Nigel Drego, co-founder and CTO of Quadric.

(March 11, 2025) - XTECH - 米新興のQuadric（クアドリック）はエッジAI（人工知能）向けの半導体技術を強みに、日本で自動車や小売り分野の顧客を開拓する。デンソーと車載AI半導体のIP（回路情報）コアを共同開発するほか、2025年1月に日本法人を設立しマーケティングや顧客支援を強化した。様々なAIモデルに柔軟に対応できる特徴を生かし、自動車や小売り分野の機器メーカーなどに独自のIPコアを提供する。

(March 6, 2025) Junko's Tech Probe - Japanese IC vendors lost their way by sticking too long to in-house fabs, insisting on home-grown MCUs and tool sets. But rapid advancements in AI could nudge Japan toward embracing "buy" over "make."

The autonomous driving sector has seen an influx of investment in the past year after nearly a decade in the doldrums. “We’ve been in this space about seven years now, and the last 12 months of activity dwarfs everything I’ve seen,” says Veerbhan Kheterpal, co-founder and CEO at Quadric, a startup developing processor architecture for the AI chips needed for self-driving cars.

(February 18, 2025) SemiWiki - 2024 was a year of tremendous momentum building for Quadric.  We introduced and began customer deliveries of the 2^nd generation of our Chimera GPNPU processor, which now scales to over 800 TOPs.  We also dramatically expanded the size of our model zoo (available in our online DevStudio at our quadric.io website) from only 20 models at the start of the year to over 200 by the close of 2024 thanks to the rapid maturation of our compiler stack.

(February 17, 2025) Semiconductor Engineering - The rapid emergence of Vision Language Models (VLMs) in the automotive/ADAS sector is one of those under-the-public-radar changes shaking up a different industry...Vision Language Models are multimodal AI systems built by combining a large language model (LLM) with a vision encoder, giving the LLM the ability to “see.”

(January 16, 2025) - Semiconductor Engineering - True, the idea of a partitioned (programmable core) + (MAC tensor engine) worked quite well in 2021 to run classic CNNs from the Resnet era (circa 2015-2017). But we have argued that modern CNNs and all new transformers are comprised of much more varied ML network operators – and far more complex, non-MAC functions – than the simple eight (8) operator Resnet-50 backbone of long ago.

(November 20, 2024) SemiWiki - Survival of the fittest is likely to play out even faster here than it did around a much earlier proliferation of CPU platforms. We still need competition between a few options, but the current Cambrian explosion of edge NPUs must come to an end fairly quickly, one way or another.