NASA developed autonomous spacecraft processors with dramatically higher computing performance levels New radiation-hardened chip delivers hundreds of times greater processing capability Deep-space ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has selected Microchip Technology Inc. of Chandler, Arizona, to develop a High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor that will ...

NASA’s new spaceflight chip tackles a stubborn problem, spacecraft still rely on outdated processors, yet future missions need faster onboard decisions. Early tests suggest a major leap in speed and ...

NASA and Microchip Technology Inc. are testing a palm-sized, radiation-resistant processor that could make mission systems 100x more powerful than current spaceflight computers, like the ageing RAD750 ...

GREENBELT, Md. – NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., made available to scientists in August the first unit of an expanded high-end computing system that will serve as the centerpiece ...