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A seasonal greetings card design? ;-) No, it’s a close-up of the next-generation…

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A seasonal greetings card design? ;-) No, it’s a close-up of the next-generation…

A seasonal greetings card design? 😉 No, it’s a close-up of the next-generation microprocessor that will serve a wide variety of future space missions. Standard terrestrial chips wouldn’t last very long in orbit under the harsh blast of space radiation. So ESA has had a long history of working with industry on specially ‘rad-hardened’ designs for space… See http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/12/GR740_next-generation_microprocessor