Cars can drive and park themselves, insists Nvidia, which in March 2014 demonstrated the Audi Connect, an Audi car that had a trunk full of electronic equipment to accomplish its mission.
Just before the CES 2015 exhibition opens its doors, the company showcased the successor to the Tegra K1 chip, the Tegra X1, a chip with 256 cores and the ability to execute 1 trillion floating-point operations per second (1 teraflop). An automatic car navigation system that the company, known for its graphics processors, is preparing will be based on one- or multiple- Tegra X1s.
Moreover, autonomous navigation (and parking) systems require such performance, as they need to process data from multiple high‑resolution cameras in the car to detect obstacles, the variations in speed of the preceding vehicle, pedestrians, available parking spaces, road markings, as well as the passengers' entertainment systems.
The processors of your car will be the most powerful of all, said company chief Jen Hsun Huang, shortly before CES 2015 opened its doors.
In the last two years, the company has been investing in the development of automotive systems and already in 2014 managed to increase its automotive revenues by 51% to $168 million, partnering with Audi, BMW and Tesla. However, the division's revenues are currently significantly lower than those from other company activities that raise the total annual revenue to $1,225 trillion.
Source: tech.in.gr
