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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.
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