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Nvidia unveils its most powerful chip ever — and it's for cars



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LAS VEGAS — Chipmaker Nvidia just introduced its most powerful mobile processor ever, the Tegra X1 — which is capable of doing teraflops, or trillions of calculations every second. But it isn't for necessarily phones, tablets or even gaming, at least for now


No, the target market appears to be cars.


Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took the stage at CES 2015 Sunday night to unveil the tiny, remarkably powerful CPU with 256 processor cores, a mobile chip that 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. Read more...


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