But in its Storm-1 architecture, Stream Processors narrows the focus to make parallel-processing hardware and software design significantly easier (Fig. 1).

Flow’s groundbreaking new architecture, referred to as a Parallel Processing Unit (PPU), boosts the CPU performance up to 100-fold through PPU integrated on-die through a license from Flow.

The q16 processor is the first silicon-proven instance of Quadric’s novel architecture optimized for on-device AI and low-power processing of large data streams.

Well-known commercial examples include Tensor Cores on NVIDIA GPUs, Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) on Google Cloud servers, Neural Engines on Apple iPhones, and Edge TPUs on Google Pixel phones.