Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced a brand new processor at CES 2015 Las Vegas - The Tegra X1, which is claimed to be the first mobile chip to provide a teraflop of processing power. The processor is built for embedded products, mobile devices, autonomous machines and automotive applications.

Nvidia says that the Tegra X1 is equivalent to the the fastest supercomputer in the world in 2000 and is much more efficient than the Tegra K1.

Tegra X1 supports all major graphics standards, including Unreal Engine 4, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5, CUDA, OpenGL ES 3.1 and the Android Extension Pack, making it easier for developers to bring PC games to mobile. The Tegra X1's technical specification include 256-core Maxwell GPU, 8 CPU cores (4x ARM Cortex A57 + 4x ARM Cortex A53), 60fps 4K video (H.265, H.264, VP9), 1.3 gigapixel of camera throughput and and the chips are produced using the 20nm process.

Additionally,  the Tegra X1 processor will be first featured  in Nvidia's newly announced NVIDIA DRIVE car computers. The Drive CX, is a digital cockpit computer which will power the car's infotainment system such as navigation, digital instrument clusters, audio system, HVAC, and driver monitoring.

 "The future car is going to have an enormous amount of computational ability," Huang said. "We imagine the number of displays in your car will grow very rapidly."

The Drive PX is a auto pilot car computer which is powered by 2 Tegra X1 CPUs in tandem with 12 HD cameras for features like Surround Vision that lets you see a seamless 360 view outside of your car on your screen and Auto-Valet for automatic parking. Nividia claims that Drive PX can build a environmental model which is used to see and understand its surroundings.

Nvidia CEO Jen Hsung Huang hopes that this system will enable smarts in low-end vehicles that currently are enjoyed by only luxury vehicles.

Nvidia said that the Tegra X1 will come out in first half of 2015.

Source : Nvidia, GSMarena