19 Facts About Nvidia Tegra

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At Mobile World Congress 2009, Nvidia introduced its port of Google's Android to the Tegra.

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Nvidia Tegra announced the first quad-core SoC at the February 2011 Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.

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In January 2012, Nvidia announced that Audi had selected the Tegra 3 processor for its In-Vehicle Infotainment systems and digital instruments display.

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4.

In March 2015, Nvidia announced the Tegra X1, the first SoC to have a graphics performance of 1 teraflop.

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At the announcement event, Nvidia showed off Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4 "Elemental" demo, running on a Tegra X1.

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Nvidia Tegra 3 is the first Nvidia Tegra release to support ARM's SIMD extension, NEON.

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GPU in Nvidia Tegra 3 is an evolution of the Nvidia Tegra 2 GPU, with 4 additional pixel shader units and higher clock frequency.

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8.

In late April 2014, Nvidia shipped the "Jetson TK1" development board containing a Tegra K1 SoC and running Ubuntu Linux.

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9.

Devices utilizing the Nvidia Tegra X1 have only been seen to utilize the cluster with the more powerful ARM Cortex-A57 cores.

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10.

Nvidia Tegra has removed the ARM Cortex-A53 cores from later versions of technical documentation, implying that they have been removed from the die.

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11.

The Nvidia Tegra X1 was found to be vulnerable to a Fault Injection voltage glitching attack, which allowed for arbitrary code execution and homebrew software on the devices it was implemented in.

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12.

Revision with greater power efficiency, known officially as Nvidia Tegra X1+ was released in 2019, fixing the Fusee Gelee exploit.

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13.

Xavier Nvidia Tegra SoC, named after the comic book character Professor X, was announced on 28 September 2016, and by March 2019, it had been released.

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14.

Nvidia Tegra confirmed the fabrication process to be 12 nm FinFET at CES 2018.

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15.

Nvidia Tegra has sent papers to the press documenting that the known clock and voltage scaling on the semiconductors and by pairing multiple such chips a wider range of application can be realized with the thus resulting board concepts.

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16.

The vehicle company NIO got announced by Nvidia Tegra for receiving a 4 Orin chip based board design for use in their cars.

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17.

Nvidia Tegra announced the latest member of the family, "Orin Nano" in September 2022 at the GPU Technology Conference 2022.

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18.

Nvidia Tegra announced the cancellation of Atlan and their next SoC will be Thor.

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19.

The newer and more powerful devices of the Tegra family are now supported by Nvidia's own Vibrante Linux distribution.

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