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Re:Intel Unveils Strategy for State-Of-the-Art Artificial In... by astrodust on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:21AM (#13034555)
Cars, especially the sort that will need to do self-driving, will have massive batteries in them. I'm talking about Roomba-sized devices where they can't power a full GPU worth of gear.
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Re:Intel Unveils Strategy for State-Of-the-Art Artificial In... by nl on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:30AM (#13035391)
They may have large batteries if they are electric cars, but it won't be for the GPUs.

The NVidia PX2 platform[1] - which is what the Telsa self-driving features uses[2] - is available in a 10W config. I presume this isn't the full self-driving mode, but the Jetson TK1 can do full image tracking and recognition in less than 30W (and that is a 2 year old platform).

[1] http://www.nvidia.com/object/drive-px.html

[2] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/tesla-motors-self-d...

[3] http://developer.download.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson/TK1/doc...

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Re:Intel Unveils Strategy for State-Of-the-Art Artificial In... by imtringued on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:01AM (#13035244)
Where did you get the nonsensical idea that they are going to use desktop GPUs in cars? The board they specifically designed for self driving cars merely needs a few watts for 500 GFLOPS. Why would this not be suitable for a "Roomba-sized device"?

https://m.f.ix.de/scale/geometry/1280/q50/imgs/18/1/6/4/4/6/...

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Re:Intel Unveils Strategy for State-Of-the-Art Artificial In... by astrodust on Friday November 25, 2016 @03:10PM (#13039485)
Google packs their cars to the gills with hardware, so just going based on what fully autonomous systems use today.
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