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Nvidia's Tegra K1 brings 64-bit computing to Google's Nexus 9 tablet

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nvidia scored a point for its Tegra K1 “superchip” by getting into Google’s Nexus 9 tablet. With that, Google is is the first to bring out a 64-bit Android device.

Google Nexus 9
Google Nexus 9

The Nvidia Tegra K1 is an all-in-one processor for mobile devices, but it has desktop-like features thanks to its 192 processing cores for both computing and graphics. The device is the first tablet to feature the latest version of the Android operating system, Android 5.0 Lollipop. No doubt, this makes the device great for tablet games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.