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A 1990s iMac Processor Powers NASA’s Perseverance Rover
As we watched NASA put a rover on Mars last month, it definitely seemed like the agency had to be using some sort of high-tech processor in its machine. Surely the rover is built on something much more powerful than the components in devices us civilians use, right? But while NASA is technically using a…
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Meet the M1, the First Apple-Designed Chip for Macs
Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June that it planned to transition Macs away from Intel to an Apple-designed chip based on ARM, but we had few details on what that chip would entail — until now. The M1 chip for Macs is here, and now we know exactly what Apple has in…