Hardware NASA Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions

[J65nko]

From https://science.slashdot.org/story/2...space-missions

SiFive is the first company to produce a chip implementing the RISC-V ISA.

They've now been selected to provide the core CPU for NASA's next generation High-Performance Spaceflight Computing processor (or HSPC).
HPSC is expected to be used in virtually every future space mission, from planetary exploration to lunar and Mars surface missions.

According to https://www.openbsd.org/riscv64.html OpenBSD runs on the HiFive Unmatched board from SiFive. So maybe one day we will see Puffy in space

[bsd-keith]

Let's hope so - Windows isn't the right O/S for mission critical operation, even if it is American - I believe they use Linux for some, if not all, now.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Sadly NASA mostly use Windows but they did switch to Debian on the ISS for reliability reasons. Unsurprisingly