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(Dec 15, 2022) Tracxn - AI Infrastructure sector is one of the most active sectors for investors, with an overall funding of USD 47B in 1.31K companies. It is also interesting to note that more than one third of the funding has been raised in the last 3 years (2019-2021).

(Dec 9, 2022) CRN - CRN rounds up chip companies making their mark on 2022 despite a turbulent economic situation unfolding. Quadric raised $21 million in October in a Series B round.

(Dec 8, 2022) SemiEngineering - The Achilles’ heel – the fatal flaw – of this approach is the assumption that Fallback is rare and not performance-critical. But a closer look at the approach reveals Fallback to be a naughty word – a new F word to be avoided at all costs.

(Dec 1, 2022) EE Journal - I was just introduced to the Chimera GPNPU (general-purpose neural processor unit) from the clever chaps and chapesses at Quadric, and this little scamp certainly presses my “wildly imaginative” and “dazzling” hot buttons.

(Nov 2, 2022) EENews Europe - A significant advantage of this new architecture is that neural network graphs and C++ code are merged into a single software code stream. Only one tool chain is required for scalar, vector, and matrix computations. Memory bandwidth is optimized by a single unified compilation stack that helps result in significant power minimization.

(Nov 2, 2022) Embedded Systems News - According to Quadric, the main benefit of such design is simplifying system-on-chip (SoC) hardware design and subsequent software programming once the chip is available thanks to a unified architecture for machine learning inference as well as pre-and-post processing. Since the core is programmable it should also be future-proof.

(Nov 2, 2022) Hackster.io - Designed to do everything an ML accelerator and a DSP can do simultaneously, the Chimera promises to make developers lives easier.

(Nov 1, 2022) SemiWiki - What if there is a way to offer PPA optimization, future proofing, ease of product development and ease of application development, all rolled into one offering? A hybrid processor IP that simplifies SoC hardware design and programming. An unified architecture that addresses ML inference, pre-processing and post-processing all-in-one.

(Oct 11, 2022) BusinessWire - Jani brings more than 30 years of processor design and management experience at Intel, Tensilica, and Cadence. He has led design teams developing control processors (CPUs), neural network processors (NPUs), and digital signal processors (DSPs). Jani holds a Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering degree from VJTI, University of Bombay.

TechCrunch - Quadric.io, a startup founded by some of the folks behind the once-secretive bitcoin mining operation “21E6,” has raised $15 million in a Series A round that will fund the development of a supercomputer designed for autonomous systems. The round was led by automotive Tier 1 supplier DENSO a…