# Quadric

> Quadric is a semiconductor IP company that licenses the Chimera family of general-purpose neural processing units (GPNPUs) - a single, fully C++ programmable processor core that runs machine learning inference alongside classic DSP and control code in one unified architecture. Founded in 2016 by three engineers who previously built bitcoin computing hardware, Quadric aims to fix the fragmentation of on-device AI silicon: instead of a fixed-function neural accelerator that breaks whenever a new model appears, its cores scale from 1 to 864 TOPS and can adopt new networks - including large language models up to 30 billion parameters - through a software port rather than a chip respin.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Burlingame, California, United States
- **Founders:** Veerbhan Kheterpal (Co-Founder & CEO), Nigel Drego (Co-Founder & CTO), Daniel Firu (Co-Founder & CPO)
- **Team size:** ~66 employees
- **Products:** Chimera GPNPU, Chimera SDK, DevStudio, LLM & Vision Transformer support
- **Notable:** Chimera QC GPNPU named 2025 Best Edge AI Processor IP by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance, Raised $30M Series C in January 2026, bringing cumulative funding to roughly $76M, Product revenue tripled in 2025 versus 2024

## Products & services

- **Chimera GPNPU** — A licensable general-purpose neural processing unit IP core that blends the performance of a neural accelerator with the full C++ programmability of a DSP in one unified architecture. Scales from 1 to 864 TOPS, with automotive safety-enhanced (ASIL-ready) variants.
- **Chimera SDK** — Software development kit and toolchain (including a Chimera Compute Library and C++ kernel support) for porting ML models - including LLMs and vision transformers - and DSP code onto Chimera cores.
- **DevStudio** — Development environment for evaluating, profiling and deploying models onto Chimera GPNPUs, supporting ONNX and standard ML frameworks.
- **LLM & Vision Transformer support** — Software ports enabling Chimera cores to run large language models up to 30 billion parameters and vision transformer inference without hardware changes.

## Achievements

- Chimera QC GPNPU named 2025 Best Edge AI Processor IP by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance
- Raised $30M Series C in January 2026, bringing cumulative funding to roughly $76M
- Product revenue tripled in 2025 versus 2024
- Added Llama 2 LLM support via a software port with no hardware changes (2023)
- Delivered vision transformer (ViT) inference support that most production NPUs could not run
- Scales a single architecture from 1 to 864 TOPS, including ASIL-ready automotive variants

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Raised $30M Series C led by the ACCELERATE Fund (BEENEXT), with product revenue reported to have tripled in 2025.
- **2025-04** — Chimera QC GPNPU named 2025 Best Edge AI Processor IP by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance.
- **2023-09** — Announced Llama 2 LLM support for Chimera GPNPUs via software port, no hardware changes.
- **2023-06** — Announced vision transformer (ViT) inference support for Chimera GPNPUs.
- **2022-12** — Completed Series B with an additional $10M, following a $21M raise earlier in 2022.

## Links

- Website: https://quadric.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quadric.io
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/quadric_io

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