# Quadric

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/quadric/  
**Website:** https://quadric.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Quadric is a semiconductor IP company based in Burlingame, California that licenses the Chimera GPNPU (general-purpose neural processing unit) processor IP and its accompanying software stack for on-device and edge AI inference. The Chimera architecture unifies scalar, vector, and matrix compute in a single fully C++ programmable core so both AI graph operators and classic DSP/C++ code run on one pipeline, giving SoC designers a future-proof target for evolving model roadmaps. Quadric ships a developer toolchain rather than a hosted web API: the cloud-based DevStudio portal, the Chimera SDK (ONNX import from PyTorch and TensorFlow), the ChiPy Python programming interface, an LLVM-based C++ extensibility path, and an instruction-set simulator for pre-silicon performance modeling. This profile catalogs Quadric's developer surface for the API Evangelist network.

## Kin Score — 12.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Quadric Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning, Semiconductors, Processor IP, Edge AI, NPU, Developer Tools, SDK

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/quadric/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.