Monday, September 8th 2008
Tegra SoC Designs based on GeForce 6 series
Tegra is NVIDIA's System on a Chip (SoC) platform. It takes NVIDIA's supreme expertise in the field of visual computing and architectural finesse to SoC that is projected to have a large market in the near future in several industries, mainly consumer electronics and automobiles. Heavyweights in the automobile industry such as Daimler AG (Mercedes Benz), FIAT Group (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Fiat, Lancia, Maserati), V.A.G. group (Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Seat, Skoda, VW) have lobbied around the Terga technology to be used to enhance their products.
As automobiles manufacturers venturing into a realm of new technology of compact computing, they would prefer proven and stable technologies from NVIDIA over future tech. For this matter, NVIDIA has derived some versions of the graphics processor part of Tegra on the GeForce 6 series. It makes it fully DirectX 9.0c compatible and capable of running up to three or more displays. Some variants NVIDIA plans to sell V.A.G. group includes a GPU derived from GeForce 9600 GT albeit much lower speeds (since it's not required to work to its potential). Futuremark has already showcased its 3D dashboard software for Audi which could harness the power of Tegra to display a futuristic dashboard panel that provides drivers with information on the car's operation along with maps and guidance in 3D.
Industry sources tell that the next-generation Tegra will add certain features from the GeForce GTX 280, such as full support for CUDA and dual-precision FP64 processing. The hardware is likely to be based on a single 8-shader processor node, which would result in about 30 GFlops of processing power. Expect the GeForce GTX for the automotive industry to arrive as a daughterboard initially.
Source:
TG Daily
As automobiles manufacturers venturing into a realm of new technology of compact computing, they would prefer proven and stable technologies from NVIDIA over future tech. For this matter, NVIDIA has derived some versions of the graphics processor part of Tegra on the GeForce 6 series. It makes it fully DirectX 9.0c compatible and capable of running up to three or more displays. Some variants NVIDIA plans to sell V.A.G. group includes a GPU derived from GeForce 9600 GT albeit much lower speeds (since it's not required to work to its potential). Futuremark has already showcased its 3D dashboard software for Audi which could harness the power of Tegra to display a futuristic dashboard panel that provides drivers with information on the car's operation along with maps and guidance in 3D.
49 Comments on Tegra SoC Designs based on GeForce 6 series
don't like the rev counter? download a rally style one . . .
There's probably a backup system... if it don't, well.... they got airbag anyway.... and enough money to pay tickets :toast:
We marvel at this now, but imagine 10 years from now when the car's GPU is liquid cooled by the car's cooling system :rockout:
but digital displays for anything other than GPS is ugly.
I agree, I manage servers and networks but my truck is still carburated with no computer at all, LoL. (Now my car and Motorcycle are a different story but they don't matter as much)
If companies like those listed above (well most of them anyway) don't have a form of backup system for those prices, that is pathetic.You must not have seen some motorcyle displays.
Anyway, just to respond to your first paragraph, Nvidia WOULD BE MAKING the chipsets as Tegra (btarunr... :slap:,;)) is a SoC. System on a Chip = CPU+GPU+chipset on a single chip. I know you know it, I'm just refreshing it in your mind. ;)