NVIDIA is now taking pre-orders for the Tegra X1 powered TX1 development kit at the NVIDIA online store. You can develop OpenACC, CUDA, and OpenCL codes for this 64-bit ARM based system! No word yet on pricing of the actual credit card sized TX1 computer. JETSON TX1 MODULE NVIDIA Maxwell™ GPU with 256 NVIDIA® CUDA® Cores Quad-core ARM® Cortex®-A57 MPCore … [Read more...]
X1 Support Added to the Tegra Android Development Pack
The Tegra Android Development Pack 4.0R1 has been released with support for the NVIDIA SHIELD Powered by Tegra X1. It supports theTegra® X1 NVIDIA® SHIELD™ running Google Android TV operating system. Download here if you are a registered developer. This release includes: • Latest Android SDK (24.0.2) and NDK (r10d) for both 32 and 64 bit devices • NVIDIA Android … [Read more...]
$199 Tegra X1 NVIDIA Shield Console Supports 4K TV
NVIDIA announced the Tegra X1 based Shield console that will be available in May. Customers can be notified for ordering via the bottom right "notify me" icon here. The device contains 3GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage along with a microSD slot, two USB 3.0 ports, and Bluetooth. Included is a gigabit Ethernet port and 2 x 2 802.11ac … [Read more...]
Rumor – Tegra X1 Powered Shield Tablet Announcement in March 2015
Rumors are circulating that the Tegra X1 powered update to the NVIDIA Shield Tablet will be announced at the GPU technology conference scheduled for March 17th or possibly earlier. Indications are the screen size will stay the same, but that appears to be the only leaked information. This is great news, along with the fact that Ubuntu 14.10 now runs on the Tegra K1 powered … [Read more...]
Project ARA – A Customizable Cellphone with an NVIDIA K1 Option
The Google Ara project noted they now have prototype modules to for both NVIDIA K1 and the Marvel PXA1928. These modules can be used to create a highlighly customizable cellphone. The project team states we can anticipate seeing these as part of the reference designs in the upcoming MDK v0.20 release. Project Ara is not an official Google product but rather a development effort … [Read more...]
Students Convert Sign Language to Text with 250 Lines of Code on an NVIDIA K1
Three Princeton students (Ethan Gordon ’17, David Liu ’17 and Jeffrey Han ’17) used an NVIDIA Jetson plus OpenCV – an open-source real-time computer vision library – to build a system able to interpret sign language letters from a video feed in 250 lines of code. The system response time was reported to be "snappy" as the GPU-accelerated edge detection and least-squares … [Read more...]
Acer K1-powered Chromebook $279 for Pre-Order – Dual-boot Linux?
The Acer Chromebook 13, priced at $279, is the first Chromebook to use an NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor. It offers customers fast graphics and a 13-hour battery in an ultra-mobile form factor. Available for presale now at Amazon.com and BestBuy.com. Spec from Amazon.com: Screen Size 13.3 inches Max Screen Resolution 1366 x 768 pixels Processor 2.1 GHz … [Read more...]
Tegra K1 Drives Audi A7 In Florida Driverless Car Highway Test
Audi tested a fully equipped driverless A7 on a Florida highway at speeds up to 25 miles per hour. Governor Rick Scott, a proponent of driverless vehicles and signer of the bill that allows for testing such vehicles in the state, sat in the driver's seat without touching the controls for part of the test. Audi requested a shutdown of Tampa's Lee Roy Selmon … [Read more...]
Start Developing on the ARM-Powered NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Now!
NVIDIA posted a development kit for the NVIDIA Shield Tablet including a banquet of languages (CUDA, Java, C/C++, ...) and developer tools. A complete list of features can be found at Tegra Android Development Pack and are available for download under the NVIDIA GameWorks Download Center. Develop on the latest and fastest mobile hardware available with the all-new NVIDIA® … [Read more...]
Pre-order Your NVIDIA Shield Tablet Now! (available July 29 in US)
The Tegra K1-powered NVIDIA Shield Tablet is here - available July 29 in the US! Pre-order here! For more information on the shield tablet, or go to shield.nvidia.com. http://youtu.be/VohrddwVQqg Those who are adventurous, Caonical has a dual-boot mode that will allow Ubuntu to run on tablets, and potentially other devices bringing full Linux and CUDA … [Read more...]