Google confirms NVIDIA Tegra K1 as Project Ara SoC option

We’re just about one month away from the next Project Ara dev conference, where Google is sure to have plenty to announce about its work towards the first commercially focused, highly modular smartphone hardware platform. We got a little taste earlier this month as imagery of the next-gen Ara prototype board was published, and this week Google’s got some more Ara details to share, as it reveals what sort of processor ...

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NVIDIA teases 64-bit Tegra K1 with Denver CPU

If you’re the sort of tech enthusiast who likes paying attention to the specs, by now you’ve no doubt heard about the NVIDIA Tegra K1 SoC, the company’s latest offering. It introduced the chip back at CES in January, and lately we’ve been hearing about a lot of hardware that will take advantage of the K1, from Google’s Project Tango dev tablet, to

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Google reveals Tegra K1-powered Project Tango tablet

This past winter, Google let us know about one of its latest advanced Android experiments, the reality-mapping Project Tango. Using some Kinect-like sensors, the handset’s designed to be able to scan its surroundings and create 3D maps. Google’s already made that hardware available to developers, but more recently we heard about a new spin on Project Tango, with word that Google was ...

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More Nexus 8 leaks add to the possibility of a Google I/O debut and NVIDIA CPU

We’re now less than a month away from Google I/O 2014, and that means we will start seeing more frequent leaks of what exactly Google has in store for us at the developer conference. One of the things we have been expecting this year is a Nexus 7 refresh, as the current model is approaching its one-year birthday. Leaks of an HTC-manufactured More Nexus 8 leaks add to the possibility of a Google I/O debut and NVIDIA CPU appeared first on Pocketnow.

NVIDIA Tegra K1 seems to defeat the Snapdragon 801in benchmarks

NVIDIA has done a lot in the last two years in order to gain some traction in the mobile space. After the disappointments of the Tegra 3, and the lukewarm reception of the Tegra 4, it’s clear that the company needed to deliver on its promise of giving us the best mobile processor the market could ask for. This year we saw the NVIDIA Tegra K1 announced at CES, and after almost six months since this announcement, we finally saw the Xiaomi Mi Pad announced with it today, and now that it’s been benchmarked, ...

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Xiaomi Mi Pad may be an iPad mini rip-off, but it packs some heavy hardware

NVIDIA had a rough year in 2013 when it came to its SoC business. After the Tegra 3 and Tegra 2 before it were featured on a number of high-profile phones and tablets, OEMs balked at the Tegra 4, and we saw it used in few devices outside those NVIDIA directly had a hand in making. Now the company’s got its new Tegra K1, an apparent powerhouse of a chip revealed back at CES in January. Will the K1 succeed where the Tegra 4 failed? That remains to be seen, but today we get the ball rolling as we learn about one of the first ...

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NVIDIA’s 192-cores are awesome, but don’t mean all that much

I’ve got four cores in my Nexus 5. My old Nexus 7 has four cores. Some of today’s smartphones have eight cores (though it’s arguable whether or not they can use all eight at the same time). My desktop computer has four hyper-threaded cores, so it looks like I have eight. Now, news out of CES 2014 is that NVIDIA has a 192-core processor: the Tegra K1, and it just might power your next ...

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

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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