Tegra X1 to power computer for the car initiative

Jan. 6, 2015

NVIDIA chose the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas this week to highlight its Tegra X1 teraflop mobile computer chip. The 256-core chip uses the company’s Maxwell architecture and will be appearing in products the first half of this year.

In addition, the company said the Tegra X1 will power the new NVIDIA DRIVE computers for the car initiative.

“Your future cars will be the most advanced computers in the world,” said NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, as reported by Brian Caulfield. “There will be more computing horsepower inside a car than anything you own today.”

The initiative includes NVIDIA DRIVE PX, which includes inputs for 12 cameras, and NVIDIA DRIVE CX, which can power up 16.8 million pixels in a next-generation infotainment system.

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Rick Nelson | Contributing Editor

Rick is currently Contributing Technical Editor. He was Executive Editor for EE in 2011-2018. Previously he served on several publications, including EDN and Vision Systems Design, and has received awards for signed editorials from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. He began as a design engineer at General Electric and Litton Industries and earned a BSEE degree from Penn State.