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NASA’s latest Mars rover has the same processor as an iMac from 1998 – The Verge
NASA’s Perseverance rover is a state-of-the-art piece of technology. The $2.7 billion machine actually shares a virtually identical processor as the 1998 iMac.
NASAs brand-new Perseverance rover is the most advanced machine thats ever landed on Mars. But when it comes to rovers, state of the art is a subjective term. Perseverance is running on none other than a PowerPC 750, a single-core, 233MHz processor with just 6 million transistors thats most famous for powering the original Bondi blue iMac from 1998. Its the same type of processor that NASA already uses in its Curiosity rover.
That may seem like a waste to some. After all, even with the difficulty…
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