Hot Chips 2026, formally the thirty-eighth Symposium on High Performance Chips, arrives at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium from August 23 through 25 with a program that captures a decisive shift in computer architecture. Peak arithmetic throughput remains important, but the conference is increasingly about system balance:… Read More
Meet Quadric on the Road: Three Must-Attend AI Events
This late summer, Quadric is taking its vision for programmable, on-device AI to three of the industry’s most influential gatherings. From advanced processor design at HotChips to scalable deployment at the AI Infra Summit and physical AI at Embedded World North America, each stop offers a different opportunity to see how the… Read More
Quadric Extends Series C to $46 Million as Edge AI Demand Accelerates
Quadric has extended its Series C financing to $46 million through a second close led by the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector investment arm of the World Bank Group. The transaction raises Quadric’s total capital secured to approximately $90 million and strengthens its ability to commercialize programmable… Read More
Disaggregating AI Compute to Break the Tokens Barrier
Among several topics dominating news streams these days, giant datacenters are a leading theme. They point to an AI-centric future while raising real concerns about sustainability and scalability. Certainly land, power and water demand are very present concerns for most of us, witness growing pushback against building new… Read More
Podcast EP336: How Quadric is Enabling Dramatic Improvements in Edge AI with Veer Kheterpal
Daniel is joined by Dr. Veer Kheterpal. Veer has founded three technology companies and possesses full-stack expertise spanning software to silicon across edge and datacenter applications. Currently, he is the CEO & co-founder of Quadric, a semiconductor IP licensing company that delivers the blueprints for efficient,… Read More
Quadric’s Recent Momentum & Funding Success
Quadric®, Inc., headquartered in Burlingame, California, is accelerating its position as a leading provider of programmable AI inference processor intellectual property (IP) and development tools for on-device AI workloads. The company announced an oversubscribed $30 million Series C funding round, bringing total capital… Read More
2026 Outlook with Steve Roddy of Quadric
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your company.
I am the Chief Marketing Officer at Quadric, where I have spent the past four years helping scale the company’s market presence and customer engagement. Quadric is a pure-play IP licensing company that has been operating for more than seven years. We specialize in a truly unique,… Read More
Quadric: Revolutionizing Edge AI
In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, Quadric stands out as a pioneering force in edge computing. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, Quadric is a technology company focused on developing high-performance, energy-efficient processors for AI workloads at the edge devices like smartphones, IoT … Read More
Legacy IP Providers Struggle to Solve the NPU Dilemna
At Quadric we do a lot of first-time introductory visits with prospective new customers. As a rapidly expanding processor IP licensing company that is starting to get noticed (even winning IP Product of the Year!) such meetings are part of the territory. Which means we hear a lot of similar sounding questions from appropriately… Read More
Recent AI Advances Underline Need to Futureproof Automotive AI
The world of AI algorithms continues to advance at a furious pace, and no industry is more dependent on those advances than automotive. While media and analysts continue to debate whether AI will deliver value in business applications, there is no question that it adds value to cars, in safety, some level of autonomous driving, … Read More

