At CES 2015, Nvidia revealed its most powerful mobile processor yet, the Tegra X1 — which is capable of doing teraflops, or trillions of calculations every second.
The tiny, remarkably powerful CPU has 256 processor cores can pump out 4K video at 60 Hz. Huang called it “the world’s first mobile super chip.”
Based on Nvidia’s Maxwell GPU architecture, the chip is said to outperform similar mobile CPUs, including Apple’s recently released A8x.
However, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that the chip will be more suited for automobiles. He says, “We believe future cars will be the most advanced computers in the world,”
In the long run, the chipmaker is planning for self-driving cars. Huang noted that while current cars are festooned with sensor technology, many of those sensors are being replaced by cameras. But in order for auto-pilot cars to work, they have to become “self-aware,” said Huang.
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