Here's a twist: NASA's Perseverance rover runs on a chip that was installed in the 1998 iMac G3.

Journalists from NewSientist found out interesting information about NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars

18th of Febuary.

What told

It turns out that the rover works onprocessor PowerPC 750. The same chip was installed in the 1998 iMac G3 computers. It is a single-core processor that is based on a 32-bit architecture. The SoC operates at a maximum frequency of 233 MHz and has 6 million transistors.

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Naturally, for the Perseverance rover the processorThe PowerPC 750 has been slightly modified to allow it to operate at temperatures between −55℃ and −125℃. This chip upgrade increased its cost to $200,000.

By the way, Apple used the PowerPC 750 SoC until 2005. Then the company switched to Intel chips.

Source: NewSientist, MacRumors

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