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

Nvidia JetsonJetson 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

  • Nvidia Jetson
    ImageNvidia Jetson

    Gareth Halfacree from Bradford, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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