(July 5, 2023) SemiWiki - More generally, new architectures in AI stimulate a flood of new techniques, already apparent in many ViT papers over just the last couple of years. Which means that accelerators will need to be friendly to both traditional and transformer models. That bodes well for Quadric, whose Chimera General-Purpose NPU (GPNPU) processors are designed to be a single processor solution for all AI/ML compute, handling image pre-processing, inference, and post-processing all in the same core. Since all compute is handled in a single core with a shared memory hierarchy, no data movement is needed between compute nodes for different types of ML operators.