NVIDIA will be inserting its new chip in future Chromebooks

Mar 30, 2015 14:42 GMT  ·  By

We recently told you that Chromebooks running on the low-cost Rockchip platform weren’t far from becoming a reality, and these models will probably be sold for extremely low prices.

But at the other end of the spectrum, Chrome OS laptops taking advantage of more powerful chipsets will also be made available at some point.

The folks at cnx-sfotware have stumbled upon two hardware platforms based on the Tegra X1, dubbed smaug and foster, in the Chromium and Coreboot source code. The two devices are most likely Chromebooks or Chromeboxes with 4GB of RAM.

The Tegra X1 is an octa-core chip with four ARM Cortex A57 and four Cortex A53 cores in Cluster Migration (and now in ARM bit.LITTLE configuration), and it was announced at CES 2015.

During the introductory event, NVIDIA said the Tegra X1 was two time faster than the Tegra K1, but for the time being, we haven’t seen any benchmarks that can actually confirm the statement.

Since the previous-gen Tegra K1 platform has made it onto Chromebooks and manufacturers such as Acer and HP have been offering such models, it’s not such a huge surprise that the Tegra X1 will end up powering some higher-end devices.

NVIDIA Tegra X1 to soon power Chromebooks (4 Images)

NVIDIA Tegra X1 configuration
NVIDIA Tegra X1 is being touted as a mobile superchipNVIDIA Tegra X1 next to the previous-gen Tegra K1
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