[saagarjha]

There are still Power chips (based on PowerPC 750) on Curiosity; it's just POWER1 that's dead:

> That's not the end of Power ISA chips on Mars, though: Curiosity, which is running a pair of RAD750s (one main and one backup, plus two SPARC accessory CPUs), is still in operation at 2,319 Mars solar days and ticking.

[Aardwolf]

> it's just POWER1 that's dead

Is it certain that the chip is not still getting some power and running something?

[bdamm]

Kind of a Schrödinger's cat problem, is it not? For all purposes it is dead to us.

[JohnJamesRambo]

Do POWER1 cpus dream of martian electronic sheep?