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Good things come in small packages ,this term can really apply to Audi's new world rallycross racer that packs a mindblowing 0-60 time of 1.9seconds.The EKS Audi s1 features a 2000cc turbocharged 4Cyl engine doesn't sound much , the engine is tuned for 600 bhp , which is almost supercar standards from a car that is classed as a hatchback . Being a WRC vehicle, the special EKS will surely feature a rollcage of some sort , tough suspension, all wheel drive and a champion racing driver called Mattias Ekstorm behind the wheel. The EKS+Ekstorm are to participate in their first race during late May. Source - SlashGear

Just after Nvidia showed off details about their new Tegra Erista mobile processor for 2015 , Audi -which has been a partner with Nvidia since 2012 , rolled a self driving car onto stage .The car , which uses a improved version of the Tegra K1 "Logan" mobile processor was used to demonstrate the processing power of the Nvidia chipset , while showing off Audi's own ingenuity .Previous self driving cars from Audi and other manufacturers used banks of computers where all were stacked in the trunk making the car look more like a experimental vehicle . The new system , using the K1 has a small side pocket where the mobile CPU and its motherboard are kept hidden from view .The K1 cpu however is custom tailored for Audi, but the chip's main  5 Core A15 cores design and the 192 Kepler GPU cores are kept unchanged . The chip runs at  a clockspeed of 2.3Ghz and it has a 8GB LPDDR3 memory . Unlike smartphones , the Audi CPU pocket can be removed and upgraded by simply pluggin...