CES 2014: NVIDIA Annouces Tegra K1

<p>The majority of people expected that they were going to be launching the next-generation Tegra 5&period; Instead&comma; visual computing giant <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Nvidia" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;nvidia&period;co&period;uk&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"geolocation noopener noreferrer">Nvidia<&sol;a> stepped up their game by yesterday announcing the Nvidia K1 at <a title&equals;"CES" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cesweb&period;org&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">CES 2014<&sol;a>&comma; a  mobile processor with 192 <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"CUDA" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nvidia&period;com&sol;object&sol;cuda&lowbar;home&lowbar;new&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"homepage noopener noreferrer">CUDA<&sol;a> cores &period; There will be initially two versions of the chip&comma; to start with a conventional 32-bit &&num;8221&semi;4&plus;1&&num;8243&semi; cores &lpar;up to 2&period;3GHz&rpar; such as <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Tegra" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nvidia&period;co&period;uk&sol;object&sol;tegra-uk&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"wikipedia noopener noreferrer">Tegra 4<&sol;a> and a dual-core 64-bit &&num;8220&semi;<a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Denver" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Project&lowbar;Denver" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"geolocation noopener noreferrer">Denver<&sol;a>&&num;8221&semi; <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Central processing unit" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Central&lowbar;processing&lowbar;unit" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"wikipedia noopener noreferrer">CPU<&sol;a> &lpar;up to 2&period;5GHz&rpar;&period; The 32-bit variant is expected to appear in day-to-day devices by Q2 2014&period; Chief executive <a title&equals;"Jen-Hsun Huang" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;crunchbase&period;com&sol;person&sol;jen-hsun-huang" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"crunchbase noopener noreferrer">Jen Hsun Huang<&sol;a> stated in the conference that the Terga K1 would be like a &&num;8220&semi;Console in the Palm of Your Hand&&num;8221&semi; as he refers to Tegra K1 outperforming past generation consoles CPU &amp&semi; GPU horsepower wise&period; The chip will be utilizing the same technology found in Nvidia&&num;8217&semi;s PC components&comma; Kepler&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;NVIDIA Tegra K1 is Impossibly Advanced&comma; bringing the same NVIDIA Kepler™ architecture that drives the world&&num;8217&semi;s most extreme gaming PCs to mobile gaming&period; This is the first-ever console-class mobile technology&comma; enabling PC-class gaming technologies like <a title&equals;"DirectX" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;DirectX" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"wikipedia noopener noreferrer">DirectX 11<&sol;a>&comma; <a title&equals;"OpenGL" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;opengl&period;org&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"homepage noopener noreferrer">OpenGL<&sol;a> 4&period;4&comma; and Tessellation—all in the palm of your hands&period;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; Nvidia<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi; text-align&colon; left&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;3b328823-d073-4561-aceb-cae5d1b1e4a1" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;