Leading Japanese automotive supplier Denso is expanding its semiconductor business through a development license agreement for a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) AI core from Quadric in the US, adding its own RISC-V IP.
Denso will acquire the IP core license for Quadric’s Chimera general purpose NPU, and the two companies will co-develop NPU IP for an automotive chip using the RISC-V instruction set architecture. Denso’s chip design subsidiary Nsitexe has been working with Quadrics since 2021 on the silicon.
