trishna_amrta
Experienced member
Fortunately, many new systems have already showing trend of moving toward 10 years old chipset. The move seem to correlate with the advancement of ARM architecture and further incentives by the rising cost of procuring 20 -30 years old chipset that no longer being manufactured en masse (this kind of "crisis"s actually recently happen less than 6 months ago with the Global Chipset Crisis).also an example of those old microchips used to powered the french frigate combat management sytems / a predecessor of that Thales Tacticos . View attachment 25592
Another good example of military usage of out of date consumer electronic was USAAF use of Sony Playstation 3 as a Supercomputer Cluster. When Sony drop support for Playstation 3 the USAAF end up "forcing" Sony to continue support for their version of Playstation 3 which rise the overall life cycle cost