Tag Archives: NVIDIA

Chipmaker Nvidia sees big increase in autos using its processors

April 26, 2014   Sean

U.S. chipmaker Nvidia expects to have its processors in 25 million new cars within a few years, up from a little more than 4.5 million vehicles now. One car with Nvidia’s technology that is getting a lot of attention is the new Audi TT.

The TT’s 12.3-inch, high-resolution display benefits from Nvidia quad-core chip, which is capable of executing 8 billion operations per second. Danny Shapiro, Nvidia’s automotive division head, spoke to Automotive News Europe Correspondent Andrea Fiorello about what’s next for the California-based company. 

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NVIDIA introduces high-performance platform for embedded systems

March 27, 2014   Neville

NVIDIA launched a new platform to the support the development of a new generation of applications that employ computer vision, image processing and real-time data processing in a range of industries including automotive.

The NVIDIA Jetson TK1 Developer Kit offers performance of 326 gigaflops—nearly three times more than any similar embedded platform.The Jetson TK1 Developer Kit includes a full C/C++ toolkit based on NVIDIA CUDA architecture, the most pervasive parallel computing platform and programming model.

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