NASA Perseverance rover 200 MHZ CPU costs $200K
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Caesar
Yes.......
They have been tailored for specific purpose.
Mining soil.......and so....
Here on earth......cryptomining...
Kevin Mauro
"The RCE withstands temperatures from -55 ° C to +125 ° C. In addition, the processor is not only extremely robust against extreme temperatures, but it also withstands radiation levels that would put conventional systems out of action. To put it into perspective: The RAD750 can withstand radiation of up to 10,000 Gray (Gy for short) - 6 Gy means death for humans."
- Wow. (great article)
Moonbogg
"A similar system has been running on Curiosity for nearly 10 years"
Yep, and so will my 1080Ti if thing don't change.
Fox2232
eklerus
I have over 100 RTX 3080 video cards and about 50 CPU mining Monero and Etherum.
Looking to diversify my portfolio with this kind of CPU's.
I think I can short order 10 of them easily .
JK I am so poor I can barely cross the street.
Kaarme
It's a good thing running scientific instruments on another planet is a lot easier than running Crysis back here on Earth.
Backstabak
Well, people were flying to the moon and back with a CPU that is worse than modern day calculators. It's a bit amazing if you think about it, but definitely all space and even military applications require robustness over speed.
Devid
So there isn't such a thing like 5GHz all core or velocity boost and stuff up there? o_O
Kevin Mauro
https://www-file.huawei.com/-/media/corporate/images/home/logo/huawei_logo.png
If that's what they can get done with just a measly 200MHZ are we wasting our 5GHZ?
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yes, totally - which is why we at "such and such" go to none other than... hahaha
asturur
0.25um = 250nm, sure must be shit 😀
Ioannis1972
So, it can run in crisis, but no Crysis.
Fediuld
cucaulay malkin
hwunboxed : "we still would have recommended nasa used a ryzen"
Fediuld
anticupidon
All fine and dandy, but the crucial, most important thing is reliability.
Maybe the CPU is made on that specific node just to give the circuitry more density on trace paths for redundancy and transmission.
New technology is a "convoluted mess" older technology can be refined and honed to perfection, thus achieving reliability.
Convoluted mess - on a tech channel (sorry, I am still looking for it ) an tech engineer confessed that even that everything is well though and designed, there are shortcuts, workarounds and trade secrets. Sh!t works, but don't send that in space, it has a huge probability of failure.
So, NASA wanted the most boring and trustworthy, reliable CPU out there.
Maybe I am wrong and talking crap. Maybe not.
What say you?
Moonbogg
Also, that process is so huge they could have just used Legos.
scoter man1
Kevin Mauro
NASA = decades-long budgetary constraints; SpaceX does not.
EspHack
yay government
given what military tech prices look like(900k per round zumwalt gun?), and that whole senate launch system boondoggle, I would love to know more about this amazing cpu
GreenReaper