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, flexible AI processors to a wide range of customers designing chips for varied applications.
Dan explores the innovative solution offered by Quadric with Veer. The solution includes licenseable AI processor IP and a software stack that opens the opportunity to develop innovative AI applications at the edge. Veer describes some of the agentic edge-based AI applications he uses today to run his company. He explains that it is now possible to achieve in one day the volume of communication follow-up, presentation development and proposal generation that used to take one to two weeks. The power and flexibilty of the Quadric platform help to make this possible.
Veer describes the impact Quadric-enabled edge-based agentic AI can have on personal laptops, industrial manufacturing, robotics and security. He describes the power of software innovation that Quadric enables for AI deployment, using statistics to discuss performance improvements over the past few years. Hardware has delivered about 15X but software has delivered 25-30X.
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