Official announcements, partnerships, and company milestones from Quadric.
Quadric announces the second close of its Series C, extending the round to $46M led by IFC (International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group), bringing total capital raised to $90M to support customers in automotive, AI PCs, humanoid robotics, wearables, and networking.
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Tripling product revenues, comprehensive developer tools, and scalable inference IP for vision and LLM workloads, position Quadric as the platform for on-device AI.
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Quadric today announced that TIER IV, Inc., of Japan has signed a license to use the Chimera AI processor SDK to evaluate and optimize future iterations of Autoware, open-source software for autonomous driving pioneered by TIER IV.
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Former EVP/GM of Synopsys IP Division Appointed Independent Board Member BURLINGAME, Calif., Dec. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Quadric® today announced the appointment of Joachim Kunkel as an independent member of the Board of Directors of the company. Kunkel joins a revamped Quadric Board in anticipation of an imminent closing of Quadric's Series C fund raising.
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AMD and Broadcom Veteran Joins Expanded Executive Team BURLINGAME, Calif., Dec. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Quadric® today announced the appointment of Ravi Chakaravarthy as Vice President, Software Engineering effective immediately. Chakaravarthy will lead Quadric's rapidly expanding software engineering organization, driving development of the company's market leading embedded AI software stack that powers Quadric Chimera™ AI processor IP.
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Burlingame, CA – May 12, 2025 – Quadric® today announced that it will showcase its ChimeraTM general-purpose neural processing unit (GPNPU) at the Embedded Vision Summit, May 20-22, 2025, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The Chimera GPNPU was recently named the 2025 Best Edge AI Processor IP by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance. Quadric will be in booth #821 at the exhibition, which is open Wednesday, May 21, from 12:30 – 7:30 pm and Thursday, May 22, from 11 am – 5 pm.
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Burlingame, CA – May 7, 2025 – Quadric® today announced that Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.(hereinafter: Kyocera) has licensed the Chimera™ general purpose neural processor (GPNPU) intellectual property (IP) core for use in next generation office automation system on-chip (SoC) designs. “Kyocera wanted to build-in the most flexible and powerful AI processing solution into our market-leading document preparation and printing equipment,” said Michihiro Okada, Deputy Senior General Manager of
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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 and vision applications. “On behalf of everyone at Quadric and our customers, we are delighted to receive this recognition of our unique AI processor IP," said Veerbhan
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Burlingame, CA – February 24, 2025 - QuadricTM today announced the appointment of Lee Vick as Vice President, Worldwide Sales effective immediately. Mr. Vick will lead Quadric’s worldwide field operations as the company expands globally with innovative artificial intelligence (AI) intellectual property (IP) that can run both machine learning inference workloads and traditional digital signal processing (DSP) and control algorithms. Prior to joining Quadric, Mr. Vick served as the Vice President
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Burlingame, CA – January 29, 2025 - QuadricTM today announced that it is establishing a subsidiary, Quadric KK, in Tokyo, Japan, with industry veteran Jan Goodsell as President. The expansion of the Quadric team in Japan comes in response to Quadric’s rapid growth within the electronics and automotive industries in Japan and to provide outstanding customer support for its expanding customer base. Most recently, Quadric and DENSO announced a project for advanced driver assistance chips. “Jan Go
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KARIYA, Japan (October 29, 2024)－DENSO Corporation and Quadric Inc. have signed a development license agreement for a Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which is a semiconductor specialized for the arithmetic processing of artificial intelligence (AI). Through the agreement, DENSO will acquire the intellectual property (IP) core license for Quadric's Chimera general purpose NPU (GPNPU) and the two companies will co-develop IP for an in-vehicle semiconductor. With the advancement of intelligent sy
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- Chimera QC Series GPNPUs add more configurability, scales single cores to over 100 TOPs - New multicore cluster QC-Multi family scales up to 864 TOPs
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Burlingame, CA – May 21, 2024 - Quadric will be showcasing its ChimeraTM general purpose neural processing unit (GPNPU) processors and proven Quadric Developer Studio, an online collaborative development environment for ChimeraGPNPUs, at the Embedded Vision Summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The company’s chief architect will examine the challenges of accuracy and performance in a presentation on Wednesday, May 22, at 4:50 pm. Exhibits will be open on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, from 12:3
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Burlingame, CA – December 11, 2023 – Quadric® today announced that representatives from the company will be at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, January 9-12, 2024. Email [email protected] to set up a meeting to learn how a general-purpose neural processing unit (GPNPU) solves the challenge of needing to artificially partition code between an NPU and a digital signal processor (DSP) and/or central processing unit (CPU). “Because it’s full
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First Processor IP Core or Consumer Device Silicon Product Known to Run Llama2 Burlingame, CA – September 15, 2023 – Quadric® today announced that support for the Llama 2 large language model (LLM) is immediately available on its ChimeraTM general purpose neural processing unit (GPNPU) intellectual property (IP) core. Unlike other IP and semiconductor application processor suppliers, Quadric was able to add this support with a simple software port with no hardware changes, so existing de
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Chimera™ GPNPU IP now available to power efficient AI/ML inference for the next generation of silicon startups Silicon Valley, CA -- June 29, 2023 - Silicon Catalyst, an incubator exclusively focused on accelerating semiconductor solutions, announced that Quadric® has joined as a new member of its In-Kind Partner (IKP) ecosystem. The Silicon Catalyst IKPs provide technical and business support to the Portfolio Companies in the incubator, enabling them to tap into the products and service
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High-performance implementation of ViT family of ML networks available for SoC designs Burlingame, CA – June 20, 2023 – Quadric® today announced that its ChimeraTM general purpose neural processing unit (GPNPU) processor intellectual property (IP) supports vision transformer (ViT) machine learning (ML) inference models. These newer ViT models are not supported by almost all NPUs currently in production, making it impractical to run ViT on many existing edge AI system-on-chip (SoC) device
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Burlingame, CA – May 22, 2023 - QuadricTM will be demonstrating the new Quadric Developer Studio, an online collaborative development environment for ChimeraTM general purpose neural processing unit (GPNPU) processors, at the Embedded Vision Summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Exhibits will be open on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, from 12:30 to 7:30 pm and on Wednesday, May 24, 2024, from 10 am to 6 pm. More information on this conference is available at [www.embeddedvisionsummit.com](http://w
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- Quickly build AI application pipelines using simple GUI - Upload your Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, custom operators, and pre- and post-processing algorithms
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Quadric’s CEO and Cofounder Veerbhan Kheterpal will speak on January 31, 2023, at DesignCon 2023 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA. The panel, titled “Real-World Deployment of AI/ML in Chip & Board Applications,” is scheduled from 4:45 – 6:00 pm in Ballroom C. Panel moderator Shakeel Jeeawoody of Siemens EDA will lead the discussion of the advances and real-world AI/ML deployment examples across the semiconductor supply chain. The discussion will highlight the benefits derive
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- Collaboration leverages Quadric Chimera™ GPNPU processors alongside the Mira CMOS image sensors from ams OSRAM to deliver high-performance, low-power machine vision - Solution enables new capabilities of low power and small form factor smart sensing for various applications, for example, face detect and identification, human pose detect, motion and occupancy detect, and many others
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Additional $10M brings Series B total to $31M Burlingame, CA – December 15, 2022 – Quadric, the general purpose neural processing unit (GPNPU) processor IP market leader, announced today an extension and completion of its Series B funding round, raising an additional $10M of equity and debt financing in addition to the $21M equity investment announced in February of this year. Xerox Ventures and Mesh Ventures are the latest investors to back Quadric’s innovative processor architecture
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Make Your Appointment Now Burlingame, CA – December 7, 2022 – Representatives from Quadric will be at the Consumer Electronics Show 2023 in Las Vegas to showcase the progress they are making with their Chimera™ general purpose neural processing unit (GPNPU).
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- 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 intellectual property (IP) offering that blends the machine learning (ML) performance
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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 reflects Quadric’s growth and expansion of the engineering team in advance of its upcoming IP product introduction.
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Collaboration Will Leverage High-Performance Quadric GPNPU Architecture to Deliver On-Device AI Solutions BURLINGAME, Calif., and OSAKA, Japan, May 17, 2022 –Quadric, an innovator in high-performance edge processing platforms for on-device AI, and MegaChips, a leading ASIC and SoC services company based in Japan, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver ASIC and SoC solutions built on Quadric’s groundbreaking edge AI processor arc
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Accomplished semiconductor IP and machine learning executive joins Quadric as the company revolutionizes AI for everyone, everywhere Quadric, a leading processor technology intellectual property (IP) licensor, today announced that Steve Roddy, a former vice president with Arm’s machine learning group, has joined the company’s executive team as chief marketing officer (CMO). Coinciding with this executive appointment, Quadric also announced that it is bringing its edge AI processor architecture
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Series B Funding Expands Quadric’s Product Roadmap and Scope of Product Capabilities BURLINGAME, Calif.Quadric, the company building the industry’s most advanced high-performance edge processing platform optimized for on-device AI at the network edge, announced today a $21M Series B funding round. NSITEXE, Inc., a group company of a leading mobility supplier DENSO, led the round with major investment from MegaChips. Existing investors Leawood VC, Pear VC, Uncork Capital, and Cota Capital als
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A Japanese subsidiary of DENSO with strong expertise in automotive and high-performance semiconductor IP for multiple industries and Quadric, an innovator in high-performance edge processing, today announced they are partnering to leverage quadric’s processor IP. TOKYO & BURLINGAME, Calif. NSITEXE, a Japanese subsidiary of DENSO with strong expertise in automotive and high-performance semiconductor IP for multiple industries and Quadric, an innovator in high-performance edge processing, toda
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