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NASA Is Testing Its Own Cutting-Edge AI Chip For Future Space Missions

NASA and Microchip are developing the High Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) system to power future autonomous space missions.
The HPSC is a radiation-hardened system-on-a-chip (SoC) claimed to deliver up to 100 times the computing capability of current space chips.
Testing at JPL includes radiation, thermal, and shock assessments to simulate real mission conditions.
The HPSC is designed to enable onboard AI dataflow processing and scalable vector computing for space missions.
JPL is conducting real-mission-like tests using high-fidelity landing scenarios to assess performance.
The HPSC aims to operate for years in space with fault tolerance and flexible power management.
NASA plans to certify the chip for spaceflight and integrate it into future orbiters, rovers, and habitats.
The effort reflects NASA’s push toward autonomous onboard processing to overcome long data delays in deep space.
The project is a collaboration with Microchip Technology Inc. based in Arizona.
The HPSC is envisioned as a compact SoC that packs the power of an entire system into a palm-sized chip.

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