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nvidia's tiny brain-in-a-chip that made phones, switches, and robots think a little harder.
means a system-on-a-chip family from nvidia that packs cpu, gpu, and memory controllers onto one die for mobile and embedded devices.
from launched in 2008 as nvidia's bid to get gpu muscle into phones and tablets, the name blends integrated with the suggestion of a self-contained core unit; it flopped in smartphones but found a second life in cars, drones, and game consoles.
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