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Nvidia ignores mobile, focuses on in-car tech at CES

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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang discusses computer vision and machine learning at CES. Image: Nvidia

5 January 2015

The chip maker announced a new chip Sunday called the Tegra X1, which it says provides double the performance of its current Tegra K1. The X1 is based on Nvidia’s newer Maxwell GPU architecture and is its first mobile chip to perform a trillion operations per second, or a teraflop of computing.

It will be used in two computing platforms for automobiles that were also unveiled Sunday. One, called Drive CX, will allow auto makers to design slick instrumentation panels that can change their surface texture with the touch of a button and make the driving experience look like the movie Tron.

The other, called Drive PX, ties two Tegra X1 chips together and provides the computational might to process images from a dozen external cameras around a car, analyzing the data to identify upcoming objects for driver assistance technologies and, eventually, self-driving cars.

That processing work employs machine learning and neural network techniques also being explored by Google and Facebook. They’ll allow car computers to identify traffic lights, pedestrians and other upcoming objects, and can improve their image recognition with practice over time.

“There will be more computing power inside your car than in any device you have today,” said Huang, who was joined by a representative from Audi, which will use the Tegra X1 in its vehicles next year.

James Niccolai, IDG News Service

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