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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...

Alfa Romeo's have always been treated as automotive art,The upcoming Alfa Romeo Giulia is a good example of that design brilliance . The pretty looking car is said to be the successor to the 159 and it is said to launch alongside Alfa Romeo's first SUV called the Giulietta Cross .Information about the two vehicles are not very clear , but the Giulia is said to have a 237Bhp engine from the Giulietta series.Although Alfa's revival was a bit slow , but the company has regained some notoriety after the launch of the Alfa 4C,but still the company is still a bit slow to launch new vehicles , so we can expect these two cars to be available sometime in the near future . Source - Autocar