Soon there will be a Chromebook with 192 cores and yet delivering 11-13 hours of battery life due to the efficient, fanless, and low wattage CPU. Some of you may quickly figured out that I am referring to the Acer Chromebook 13 powered by NVIDIA Tegra K1. With popular gaming engines being converted to WebGL such as Unreal Engine 4, this development represents an exciting new frontier for Chromebooks. Naturally the possibilities extends much more than gaming as seen in the video at NVIDIA. It is a buy for early adopters.
Another PowerPC usage was spotted, this time it is on the James Webb Telescope. The reliable and radiation chip was known to be used on the Orion spacecraft. Most of you know the variant called G3 on Apple PowerPC products. https://www.talospace.com/2022/01/another-powerpc-in-space.html?m=1 Here is an interesting link with many more examples of the PowerPC usage: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/a-fun-thread-on-the-powerpcs-longevity-durability-and-performance-for-ongoing-science-work.2170348/