Video: Tegra 2 Smartphone Chip Powers Car Apps
Posted in: Cars, Miscellaneous, NVIDIA, tegra 2, Today's ChiliLAS VEGAS — Smartphones seem to get more powerful each day with apps and zippy processors. But why stop there?
Nvidia this week showcased some fancy cars featuring the new Nvidia Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip — the same dual-core brains that are showing up in some of the fastest smartphones here at CES 2011.
Nvidia recently partnered with luxury carmakers Tesla and BMW to install Nvidia systems inside some of their cars. At the show, the Tegra 2 was powering in-vehicle computers that could potentially offer some interesting apps: high-quality 3-D maps for GPS navigation, car diagnostic services and street sign detection.
See the video above for a glimpse of what an app-powered car would look like. (Note these were demos, as the software is not yet complete).
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