GE Partners With NVIDIA on High-Performance Embedded Computing Solution

GE Intelligent Platforms announced at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) that it has signed an agreement with NVIDIA to bring products based on the NVIDIA Tegra K1 mobile processor to the embedded computing market.

GE Intelligent Platforms will develop and manufacture rugged, high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) and graphics solutions based on Tegra K1. GE will be NVIDIA’s preferred provider of the new technology to serve applications in harsh environments, most notably to customers in the military/aerospace market.

The Tegra K1 features 192 fully programmable GPU computing cores (capable of executing CUDA algorithms) in addition to four ARM Cortex-A15 CPU cores with a fifth battery-saver core.

“We are working with customers for whom GPU technology is an ideal fit for their sophisticated but SWaP-constrained applications, but who have been precluded from using it because of its power consumption and heat dissipation,” said Simon Collins, product manager, GE Intelligent Platforms. “Tegra K1 changes all that, and will allow those customers to implement the optimum solution. Tegra K1 allows GE to uniquely address a much broader spectrum of potential applications. Previously, our HPEC offering ranged in power consumption from around 2,000 watts at the high end to 100 watts at the entry level. In the future, we will be able to offer HPEC solutions that consume as little as 10 watts, allowing CUDA algorithms to be easily ported across an even broader range of platforms.”

For more information, visit NVIDIA and GE Intelligent Platforms.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.