Overview
For device makers, a small, inexpensive, low-power chip that can run the large AI models is needed to lead the market with their device features. A very efficient and low-cost, low-power way to achieve this is to compress large AI models and design a computer chip that runs such an AI compression algorithm. ABR has done exactly this with our patented AI time-series compression algorithm, called the Legendre Memory Unit (LMU).
The LMU was engineered by emulating the algorithm used by time-cells, a kind of neuron, in the human brain. The work was done by ABR in partnership with the neuroscience engineering research lab at U Waterloo where our company was spun out of.
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With every SDK release, Quadric automatically recompiles and re-profiles the entire model zoo across a broad sweep of hardware configurations. The results land in DevStudio for any SoC architect to explore — no sales call, no handpicked numbers.
Whisper runs end-to-end on Chimera. Encoder and decoder compiled as native GPNPU kernels, INT4 weights, FP16 attention, top-1 token match against the float32 reference. Scales to four cores with a flag, no recompile.
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At Quadric, we have long argued that heterogeneous NPU designs — those that stitch together multiple specialized fixed-function engines — carry an unavoidable hidden cost: data has to move. A lot. And data movement burns power, adds latency, and creates silicon-area overhead that scales with every new generation of AI models. Now, Intel has made that case for us.
The IP industry is no stranger to boom and bust cycles, and it looks to be at the crest of another wave.
AI is evolving faster than the chips designed to run it. Models like large language transformers and generative networks are shifting rapidly–while silicon development cycles remain long and rigid. Traditional NPUs, built around proprietary instruction sets and opaque compilers, simply can’t keep up.
