LAS VEGAS --Nvidia unveiled its new mobile processor the Tegra X1 at the 2015 International CES Monday. The company best known for its graphics cards and GPU's is hoping to bring "supercomputer-class power" to mobile devices.

The Tegra X1 packs a heavy punch with its specs. The mobile processor runs on an 8-core, 64-bit ARM CPU and a 256-core Maxwell GPU. What's most impressive is the processor offers a teraflop of computational power. This is enormou and twice the power of the previous version, the Nvidia Tegra K1. For the layman, the Tegra X1 is capable of running one trillion calculations per second and will be capable of running "any application that relies on the architecture of Maxwell." Including but not limited to of course video games run by desktop GPUs.

This innovation parks the first mobile chip capable of achieving a teraflop of power and will open up new possibilities for what a mobile device, whether a tablet or a smartphone, is capable of doing. The Tegra X1 was capable of running complex 3D rendering demos using one-tenth the power that the Xbox One needed to run the same demo just one year ago. Low power consumption is key when it comes to mobile, and Nvidia has hit it out of the park.

What is perhaps most exciting, and a key theme at this years CES, is the Tegra X1's place among the future of automotive technology. The Tegra X1 will serve as the center of Nvidia's car platforms and will bring gorgeous graphics to your vehicles display.

Nvidia sees a future with cars running their "Drive PX" platform, powered by two Tegra X1's and capable of autopilot. Autonomous driving is something we're hearing about again and again this week, and Nvidia seems to be offering up its chips as a way to get closer to that reality.