Tag: FPGA

  • The In-Orbit Remote Sensing Pipeline

    The In-Orbit Remote Sensing Pipeline

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    Key Insight An in-orbit processing pipeline essentially takes a ground-based data center apart and fits its functions inside a satellite. Each stage uses the computing hardware best suited to its task: FPGAs for rule-based processing, NPUs for AI inference, and CPUs for scheduling. Models that are “good enough” trade complexity for real-time performance. To assess…

  • Commercial Space: China’s Domestic Chips Are Winning This Space Race

    Commercial Space: China’s Domestic Chips Are Winning This Space Race

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    Ground-based AI chips are a game built around Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem, and any challenger must contend with developer ecosystems, compute benchmarks and framework compatibility. But in space, an opportunity has emerged to reshuffle the AI compute chip landscape — the competitive dynamics of space-based computing differ from those on the ground, and Nvidia holds no…