About Quadric
Quadric licenses processor designs to chip makers instead of selling chips. Its Chimera design is a general-purpose neural processing unit, or GPNPU, which runs AI inference and conventional signal processing and control code on a single core with one software toolchain. Most competing designs split these tasks across separate units. The multicore versions scale up to 864 TOPS, a measure of trillions of operations per second. Kyocera licensed Chimera in 2025 for office equipment chips. The company is based in Burlingame, California.
Quadric was founded in 2016 and is based in Burlingame, CA, United States. It is listed under Edge Computing, AI Accelerators. Reported funding is $30M Series C (Jan 2026, BEENEXT led).
Compute Technologies
- Edge Computing
- AI Accelerators
What Quadric works on
Edge Computing
Edge computing means processing data close to where it is produced, on a device or a nearby server, instead of sending everything to a distant cloud data center. In chip terms, edge processors are small, low-power chips that run software and AI models inside phones, cameras, cars and sensors.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
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