CES 2015: Nvidia Tegra X1, new processor for mobile devices and embedded systems

In the market for processors for mobile devices, there are several players including Intel, Qualcomm, MediaTek and Nvidia, each with different strategies to increase their market share.

Specialist graphics cards, Nvidia took advantage of CES in Las Vegas to present its new mobile processor, Tegra X1. Here are all the details.

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After the Nvidia Tegra processor K1 launched last year at CES and team some tablets and other embedded systems, the founder unveils Tegra X1, which the manufacturer would be twice as powerful as its predecessor. Featuring 256 cores and based on the Maxwell GPU architecture used on GeForce GTX980, Nvidia Tegra processor X1 will be integrated on-board computers Drive Nvidia announced during CES 2015. The Drive PX is its name (photo below cons) is an autopilot system that can process up to 12 onboard cameras and is able to manage multiple displays in vehicles. 

"In the future as we design, cars, robots and drones will be autonomous; they can see and learn through an artificial intelligence that is hard to imagine today, "said Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO and co-founder of NVIDIA." The conduct will be safer, cities will be safer and we will remove all of great benefits."
"To get there, much progress remains to be made ​​in visual computing and parallel computing. The super Tegra mobile processor X1 with its computing power of a Teraflops represents a giant step in that direction."

Technically, the X1 Tegra processor is thus based on a Maxwell GPU to 256 cores, an 8-core processor (ARM Cortex A57 4x and 4x ARM Cortex A53). It is capable of handling Ultra HD video at 60 frames per second (H.265, H.264 and VP9), a camera of 1.3 Gigapixel and is engraved in 20 nm.

According to Nvidia, the deployment of the Tegra processor X1 is designed for the industrial sector by about 6 months. But before that, the founder of the stand exposes Renovo Coupe, the first US electric supercar. This is actually equipped with the new Tegra X1 for his cockpit.

Currently, several automakers have already trusted Nvidia to equip some models of their range including Audi (TT 2014), BMW (i3 and i8), Tesla Motor, Volkswagen, Mini and Lamborghini for their embedded systems.