Updated 2016 Cadillac CUE. So Fast and Smooth (A Review)

[Cmicasa the Great]

 

 

 

 

 

Cadillac is now using Freescale's i.MX6 DL chip, a Cortex A9 mustering 4,000 DMIPS with a 27 MT/s Vivante GPU. In contrast, the old "Triton" system had a trio of ARM11 cores - for 1,440 DMIPS total - and a 10 MT/s IMG SGX535 GPU. The memory interface has jumped from 16-bit to 64-bit, too. Altogether, Cadillac tells me, the 2016 system should deliver 3x the CPU performance and 4x the GPU performance, affecting not only the experience while driving but how soon CUE is ready after you hit the starter button.

 

 

 

Meanwhile, larger cars - like the Escalade, CTS, and XTS - will get Surround Vision, which will show a 360-degree view around for easier parking. The CTS-V even has dedicated cameras pointing at its extremities, so that you don't inadvertently curb your $5.5k carbon fiber package.  Then there's Apple's CarPlay, included "out of the box" with the 2016 CUE system. As we found on the CTS-V, that'll coexist with the native CUE navigation, the voice prompts piping up from behind the scenes even if your projected iPhone interface is monopolizing the touchscreen. Later in the year, Cadillac tells us, Android Auto will be added. Existing 2016 model year cars will support an upgrade when that happens, too.

 

More at http://www.slashgear.com/cadillacs-2016-cts-v-ushers-in-revamped-cue-05395543/

Edited September 3, 2015 by Cmicasa the Great

[David]

Very excited to see this coming to the Cadillac line sooner rather than later.

[Frisky Dingo]

It better be drastically improved over what's in the cars now.

[El Kabong]

It's like any of those systems: it started out awful, and it got better, and quickly at that.

[Cmicasa the Great]

The thing is that it really wasn't bad if U actually took the time to read the manual or even just play with it. I remember seeing idiots hitting the silver/metal piece thinking they were buttons when they were just markers for one's fingers to kno where the touch point was. 

[smk4565]

Knobs still work best for volume.  Touch screens still get covered in fingerprints.

[Drew Dowdell]

An additional software update is to follow.  Even though the next gen software wasn't ready yet, they wanted to get the hardware in place to today's buyers could upgrade later.