NASA selects RISC-V chip designer SiFive to help replace its aging and over-designed spaceflight computers.
NASA has selected SiFive, a US chip startup that designs RISC-V CPUs, to provide the “core CPU” for the space agency’s forthcoming High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor.
NASA announced in June that its HPSC project would develop new flight-computing technology that will feature “at least 100 times” the computational capacity of current spaceflight computers, which were developed almost 30 years ago.