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Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission by kayfox on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:46PM (#19156826)
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-harden...

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Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission by snerbles on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:33PM (#19157262)
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.

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Re:Nasa’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission by justin66 on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:32PM (#19157253)
They're not comparable chips. The RAD6000 has a thousand times more RAM, for starters.
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