Many expected Nvidia to launch a next-generation Tegra 5 platform at the Consumer Electronics Show. Instead, Nvidia arguably went quite a bit farther.
Nvidia announced the Nvidia K1, a mobile processor with 192 graphics cores, which chief executive Jen Hsun Huang positioned as a mobile game console. There will be a version of the chip with traditional 32-bit "4+1" ARM cores like Tegra 4, and even a version with a dual-core 64-bit "Denver" CPU, the ARM chip that Nvidia announced in 2011. There will even be a third option for cars.
A year ago, Nvidia launched "Project Shield," a handheld gaming device based on the Nvidia Tegra 4 mobile chip. Project Shield served both as a mobile game console that would compete with the PlayStation Vita, Android gaming tablets, and other portable gaming solutions, as well as a device to stream games from PCs powered by Nvidia GeForce hardware. Nvidia also launched GeForce Experience, a software application that automatically optimizes the settings of PC games to maximize their performance when running on Nvidia hardware, and Grid, a rack server that could process graphics-intensive applications and deliver them to clients.
The next-gen Unreal Engine 4, running on the Nvidia K1 hardware.
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