Nvidia has unveiled a new chip which it claims will offer better graphics than the Xbox 360 and PS3 on mobile devices.
The Tegra K1 is based upon Nvidia’s high-end PC components and features 192 GPU cores. The company took the wraps off the chip ahead of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Showing off the chip at a pre-CES event, the company’s chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang said next generation graphics would be available on mobile devices “for the first time”.
The company hopes the chip will enable it to compete with rival products from Qualcomm and Samsung.
Nvidia was once seen as the dominant force in gaming graphics technology. However, both Sony and Microsoft chose to go with bitter rival AMD for the graphics chips in the PS4 and Xbox One.
Similar to Apple's A7
The company has struggled to make ground with it's current graphics chips. The Microsoft Surface 2 and Asus’s Transformer Pad Infinity Hybrid tablets are the only two major devices using it's technology.
The current Tegra 4 chips have 72 cores. Nvidia hopes the huge jump in computing power will give it a clear advantage when it comes to firms deciding which graphics chip to use in upcoming phones.
Huang said that the Tegra K1 will come in two varieties. One will come with a quad-core Cortex A15 CPU designed by ARM. The other will come with a dual-core Nvidia Denver CPU. The Denver CPU is based upon ARM’s 64-bit V8 architecture.
The benefit of delivering a phone with 64-bit technology is that it removes the 4GB RAM limit that 32-bit chips have. Apple’s own custom 64-bit CPU – powers the iPhone 5S – is based on the same ARM design as Nvidia’s Denver CPU.
The Tegra K1 is based upon Nvidia’s high-end PC components and features 192 GPU cores. The company took the wraps off the chip ahead of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Showing off the chip at a pre-CES event, the company’s chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang said next generation graphics would be available on mobile devices “for the first time”.
The company hopes the chip will enable it to compete with rival products from Qualcomm and Samsung.
Nvidia was once seen as the dominant force in gaming graphics technology. However, both Sony and Microsoft chose to go with bitter rival AMD for the graphics chips in the PS4 and Xbox One.
Similar to Apple's A7
The company has struggled to make ground with it's current graphics chips. The Microsoft Surface 2 and Asus’s Transformer Pad Infinity Hybrid tablets are the only two major devices using it's technology.
The current Tegra 4 chips have 72 cores. Nvidia hopes the huge jump in computing power will give it a clear advantage when it comes to firms deciding which graphics chip to use in upcoming phones.
Huang said that the Tegra K1 will come in two varieties. One will come with a quad-core Cortex A15 CPU designed by ARM. The other will come with a dual-core Nvidia Denver CPU. The Denver CPU is based upon ARM’s 64-bit V8 architecture.
The benefit of delivering a phone with 64-bit technology is that it removes the 4GB RAM limit that 32-bit chips have. Apple’s own custom 64-bit CPU – powers the iPhone 5S – is based on the same ARM design as Nvidia’s Denver CPU.
Huang also said that the company would be targeting the chipsets at car makers. He said that more and more car makers are looking at building in features that are processor-intensive – such as self drive.
“You’ll have a supercomputer in your car,” he told the audience.
The 32-bit version of the chip will become available to phone and car makers in the middle of 2014. The 64-bit chipset should arrive before the end of 2014.
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“You’ll have a supercomputer in your car,” he told the audience.
The 32-bit version of the chip will become available to phone and car makers in the middle of 2014. The 64-bit chipset should arrive before the end of 2014.
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