NVIDIA Tegra K1 News: Chip Manufacturer Receives Coveted ‘Golden Award’ For 192-Core Super Chip; Co. Sets Record In Computex Tradeshow Awards

NVIDIA Tegra K1 news: The chip manufacturer and maker of the 192-core super chip NVIDIA Tegra K1 received the much-coveted “Golden Award” at the Computex Tradeshow Awards for the mobile processor, which is being considered by the some as the fastest chip for mobile devices. NVIDIA was also awarded the Best Choice Award for the sixth year running, setting a record.

NVIDIA’s honors mark the longest Best Choice Award win-streak of any international Computex exhibitor. There were more than 475 technology products from nearly 200 vendors who competed for this year’s recognition.

Computex is the largest technology tradeshow in Asia and the second-largest in the
world, a press release from NVIDIA noted. The tradeshow’s Best Choice Awards was established in 2002 and honors innovation, functionality and market potential.

NVIDIA GRID won in the “Cloud Computing” category and in the “IC & Components” category, Tegra K1 picked up a Golden Award, which honors the most outstanding product in a category, the NVIDIA press release stated.

The Tegra K1 was built on NVIDIA Kepler ® architecture – the world’s most advanced and energy efficient GPU. MarketWatch noted that the Tegra K1’s fully programmable CUDA cores deliver the most advanced mobile graphics and performance, and its compute capabilities open up many new applications and experiences in fields such as computer vision, advanced imaging, speech recognition and video editing.

The Tegra K1 was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January of this year. Based on benchmark tests, the Tegra K1 has outperformed its competitors – including Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor, Apple’s A7 and Intel’s Haswell chip.

Xiaomi, a Chinese electronics giant, recently launched the Xiaomi MiPad, the first mobile device to have the Tegra K1 chipset under the hood.

Many suggest that the new Tegra K1 could be the new standard for speed of processors used in the mobile industry.