March 17, 2015
NVIDIA Jetson TK1 released
NVIDIA announced the Jetson TK1 on March 17, 2015 — a Tegra K1 developer board for CUDANVIDIA's parallel computing platform — lets developers run general code on GPUs for ML and simulation.-powered edge AI and computer visionSoftware that interprets images and video — object detection, OCR, and scene understanding..
What it was for
Jetson brought GPUGraphics processing unit — a chip optimized for parallel math; now used for graphics, ML, and scientific computing. compute to embedded robots, drones, and IoTInternet of Things — networked sensors and devices embedded in appliances, factories, and cities. gateways — developers ran TensorFlow and OpenCV on a $192 board with 192 CUDANVIDIA's parallel computing platform — lets developers run general code on GPUs for ML and simulation. cores. Later Jetson Nano, Xavier, and Orin modules powered production edge ML. It paired NVIDIA's CUDANVIDIA's parallel computing platform — lets developers run general code on GPUs for ML and simulation. ecosystem with maker-style single-board hardware.
Companies
- NVIDIA
Why it's here
Jetson TK1 was NVIDIA's first CUDANVIDIA's parallel computing platform — lets developers run general code on GPUs for ML and simulation.-capable embedded developer board.
Why it mattered
It made GPUGraphics processing unit — a chip optimized for parallel math; now used for graphics, ML, and scientific computing.-accelerated inferenceRunning a trained model to produce predictions — as opposed to the training phase that learns weights. practical on edge devices outside datacenters.
What it solved
EdgeMicrosoft's Chromium-based web browser — the default on Windows, replacing Internet Explorer. projects needed local neural-network inferenceRunning a trained model to produce predictions — as opposed to the training phase that learns weights. without cloud latency or a full desktop GPUGraphics processing unit — a chip optimized for parallel math; now used for graphics, ML, and scientific computing..
Media
ImageNvidia JetsonGareth Halfacree from Bradford, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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