Benchmarking An NPU At Scale


With every Chimera SDK release, something quietly industrial happens: the entire 300+ model zoo gets automatically recompiled and re-profiled across a broad sweep of hardware configurations and the results land in DevStudio in the process. No one is hand-typing FPS numbers into a slide or running a single model on a single configuration to cherry-pick for a datasheet. The whole zoo moves forwar... » read more

Overflowing Zoo: The Power Of Compilers


The term “model zoo” first gained prominence in the world of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) beginning in the 2016-2017 timeframe. Originally used to describe open-source public repositories of working AI models — the most prominent of which today is Hugging Face — the term has since been adopted by nearly all vendors of AI chips and licensable Neural Processors Units (... » read more