It’s CES 2015 this week, which means the world’s greatest nerds are banding together to celebrate a bunch of gadgets and technological advances that would have looked like bad science fiction a few years back.
Take, for example, Nvidia’s latest technical tinkering. The latest version of the company’s Tegra processor, the X1, is apparently powerful enough to make a car “situationally aware”, meaning that it could essentially drive itself. Terrifying.
Two Tegra X1s can be linked up to Nvidia’s newly announced DRIVE PX supercomputer, allowing it to read up to 75 objects at the same time, interpreting and understanding the environment around the car. This is all carried out by a complex “deep neural network” AI programme, which is exactly the sort of thing that lead to Skynet, so expect to be interned at a robot slave camp sometime in 2021.
Powered by the Tegra X1 is the new DRIVE CX, a digital-cockpit computer system which can process nearly 17 megapixels, equivalent to two 4K screens, and comes with media integration, text-to-speech, voice control, and guided navigation. There’s more detailed information over at the Nvidia blog.
While there’s nothing specifically related to PC gaming that’s been announced by Nvidia at CES, all this messing around with high-end tech can only be a good thing for the platform.
