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POWER chip is implemented into tops of most powerful computers in the World !
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the...
Martian rover “Perseverance” is driven by a (ruggedized) POWER microprocessor !
The rover's computer uses a temperature and radiation hardened single board computer based on a ruggedized PowerPC G3 microprocessor (PowerPC 750). The computer contains 128 megabytes of volatile DRAM, and runs at 133 MHz. The flight software runs on an Operating...