The car dash land grab: Apple CarPlay vs Audi Smart Display

Posted on by Taylor Martin

The push for better vehicle infotainment has begun, and it’s being spearheaded by none other than the mobile industry’s two leading companies: Google and Apple. Apple’s CarPlay, announced earlier this week at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland, was shown off in detail by Volvo. The other major partners are Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari, but you can also expect CarPlay to be present in vehicles from BMW, GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Subaru, Land ...

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Nvidia’s new Tegra K1 mobile processor has 192 graphics cores

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

After much of our disappointment with Nvidia’s Tegra 3 mobile processor, and the slow adoption of the Tegra 4, we’ll admit that most of us were waiting to see if Nvidia’s Tegra 5 would help the chipmaker have a more promising 2014. Nvidia has been famous for religiously using CES as their launch platform for every new mobile processor that we’ve known in the last couple of years, but this time, we didn’t really get a Tegra 5. What Nvidia has unveiled today is actually something much bigger. The company has just announced their new Nvidia Tegra K1 mobile ...

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Expect Android-equipped Cars from Audi, Honda, GM and Hyundai soon

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Just a couple of days ago one of the biggest rumors we heard from CES was that Google was teaming-up with Audi to bring us the first Android-equippeed vehicle in the industry. As it turns out, the rumors were true, but there was more than just one carmaker interested in the new approach towards bringing Android to our means of transportation. Google has now joined forces with Audi, Honda, GM and Hyundai to form the Open Automotive Alliance (OAA), which closely resembles the Open Handset Alliance that was formed almost half a ...

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