The Ivy Bridge is an improvement over the previous generation of APUs (accelerated processor unit), Sandy Bridge.
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"When designing the MIB High system, it was clear that we would need a highly integrated, robust and adaptable processor for the RCC unit, " said Dr. Peter Steiner, head of infotainment development AUDI AG.
ENGADGET: TI to be driving force behind Audi's next-gen MIB High infotainment platform
This long span, made possible by the MIB High system's unique modular approach, allows developers to retain the stable vehicle processor within the RCC unit, and provides the flexibility to incorporate future consumer-demanded features to the MMX unit.
ENGADGET: TI to be driving force behind Audi's next-gen MIB High infotainment platform
The unit's processor gets a bump up to 400 Mhz, with RAM at 64MB.
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All of the system's components, including the main control unit, the processor, the speakers, the subwoofers and even one of the two remotes (the second "subremote" provides only basic functions) share an attractive rosewood-framed metal theme.
So, Scout got upgraded from an 8-bit processor to a 32-bit unit based on Micrium, the operation system being used by NASA's Curiosity Rover for sample analysis on Mars.
The Cray XK7 system contains 18, 688 nodes, with each holding a 16-core AMD Opteron 6274 processor and an NVIDIA Tesla K20 graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerator.
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There's an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium III processor and a hard drive, and the game controllers connect to the unit via the Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology that's typical of most PCs.
The graphics processing unit (GPU) "has become a much more important processor in a system than it was just a few years ago, when everything was 2-D in nature, " says Sam Blackman, chief executive of Elemental Technologies, a company that builds video-processing software that runs on Nvidia's gear.
Packed in their 7-by-2-foot titanium-framed fiberglass bodies are terabytes of cellphone flash storage, a dual-core ARM processor running open Linux software, a battery pack, sensor arrays, a GPS unit, and wireless and satellite communications systems.
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Among other features, the processor enables feature-rich vehicle interfaces, and vivid digital radio and audio within the RCC unit in Audi's MIB High system, which debuted in the 2012 Audi A3.
ENGADGET: TI to be driving force behind Audi's next-gen MIB High infotainment platform
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