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Low yields, low volume, high development cost, high certification costs, strict QA. Vorago makes a cheaper option these days at $800 a chip: https://www.vorago

by kayfox 8y ago

Low yields, low volume, high development cost, high certification costs, strict QA. Vorago makes a cheaper option these days at $800 a chip: https://www.voragotech.com/products/va10820-radiation-hardened-arm®-cortex®-m0-mcu https://www.voragotech.com/products/va10820-radiation-harden...

justin66 8y ago
They're not comparable chips. The RAD6000 has a thousand times more RAM, for starters.
snerbles 8y ago
That's a Harvard architecture microcontroller, a bit different from the POWER CPUs in the rovers. Still subject to the same engineering constraints, but significantly less complex.