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Nvidia has today launched a new GPU module known as the Jetson TX1. It's small enough to fit in the palm of your hand but powerful enough to bring GPU accelerated artificial intelligence to robots, drones and other devices. The Jetson TX1 is based on Nvidia's current Maxwell architecture, which has been highly rated since its launch in September last year.
The module includes one Maxwell GPU capable of pushing 1-teraflop per second of compute power, a 64-bit ARM A57 chip, 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and a gigabit Ethernet port- though it does also support 802.11 2×2 ac WiFi.
The Jetson module is designed to work with the Linux based SDK and power machine learning or AI activities, in order to create smarter applications and devices. Speaking at the company's announcement event (via Venture Beat), Nvidia CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang said: “The ability for computers to learn, the ability for computers to write software itself and do seemingly amazing things, artificially intelligent things, is revolutionizing web services”.
Huge companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and IBM all buy GPUs from Nvidia from time to time in order to power their own machine learning and artificial intelligence work. The Jetson TX1 development kit will launch at $599, though the cost is reduced to $299 for those in education.
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KitGuru Says: It looks like Nvidia's Maxwell architecture is going to be powering AI applications now. Are any of you interested in AI and machine learning? It has become a major point of research amongst tech companies over the last couple of years.
Hello world, Meet the Jetsons.
I don’t know Intel or nVidia, x86 or arm.
I just know that android on arm is running circles all around the globe.
In the mobile devices based on arm we have millions of apps
and we can install few at a time but isn’t the same with the PC?
On PC we have a limit of soft-wares we can run based on the specs
and that is the same thing that goes to mobile devices.
In fact great mobile devices are more costlier than a simple PC.
Samsung note costs more than a simple i3 pc.
If we use pc we need to worry about soft-wares, virus etc
If we use Samsung galaxy note we are overwhelmed by so many free apps.
I always wondered why we can’t follow the Ubuntu way.
Years ago Ubuntu said that Ubuntu phone can used as a phone+pc
So why can’t we simply connect out arm phone or arm tablet to monitor
wireless keyboard+mouse and use it as a full blown pc?