It’s basically a powerful dongle. The TX1 is roughly the size of a credit card, yet it can churn out 1 teraflop – a trillion floating point operations every second.
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As per the Product Manager, Jesse Clayton of Nvidia TXI will help robots and drones in getting self-powering and smooth searching capabilities. The idea, of course, is that once product development is complete the user can design their own custom base board, featuring only the connectivity and features they require in their design, into which Jetson TX1 modules can be dropped.
Could probably also whack it into the back of a telly and use it to stream Game of Thrones. CEO of the company Jen-Hsun Huang believes that machine learning will bring us into the most exciting times in computing yet, and he’s not alone in this thinking.
Available as a module, Jetson TX1 is also built into a Developer Kit, which enables hobbyists and professionals to develop and test autonomous devices, thus making it easy for them to transition from development to manufacturing and production.
Nvidia is planning the launch of its Jetson TX1 GPU, which focuses on the machine learning processes that are increasingly being used in the realm of technology.
Software-wise, the TX1 supports Linux for Tegra and more APIs than you can shake a neural network at. For essential maker-board style expansion and interfacing Nvidia has kitted out the Jetson TX1 board with 3x UART, 3x SPI, 4x I2C, 4x I2S, and GPIOs. The card also has 4GB of RAM shared between the CPU and GPU, along with 16GB of eMMC storage. The usual suspects are CUDA 7.0, OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES 3.1, and Vulkan. It measures 50mm x 87mm and is bundled with the Jetson Linux software development kit (SDK).
The TX1, however, does not support Android.
The kits go on pre-order beginning November 12 for $599 in the USA, and internationally in the coming weeks.
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The Jetson TX1 was developed with the assistance of Herta, Stereolabs, Percepto, Kespry and the MA Institute of Technology. The final TX1 module version, which ships without a few major components and connectors, will be available early next year at a suggested price of $299 (in quantities of 1000 or more) from distributors around the world.
