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Re:xAI joins SpaceX by adastra22 on Monday February 02, 2026 @05:52PM (#46863239)
You are conflating with their rockets. They don’t go space grade in their rockets because they don’t need to. They’re not up there for very long, and the avionics can be shielded behind large rocket stages.

Starlink satellites use space-rated AMD Versal chips: https://www.pcmag.com/news/amd-chips-are-powering-newest-sta...

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Re:xAI joins SpaceX by debatem1 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:31AM (#46868691)
Possibly, although that article seems quite confused as well (of course they need custom silicon, and of course that doesn't mean anything about what COTS parts they do or don't use). It would be nice if SpaceX would publish more about its compute architecture.
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