Johnston: StarCloud secretly flew three Arm GPUs on its first spacecraft
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Philip Johnston, CEO of StarCloud, discusses the hardware and chip architectures used in StarCloud's orbital data centers.
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“We flew an ARM chip on our first spacecraft. We flew three ARM GPUs on our first spacecraft. Nobody knows about that, but we did.”
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