[Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/chrome_fhMfguXMLy.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/chrome_QIMi2F6jdQ.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] Intel has put chips in many a spacecraft. Until 2012, the International Space Station had 16MHz Intel 8086 chips as its primary brains, then received an “EPIC” upgrade to 266MHz Intel Pentium. Now, Intel is publicly marketing cut-down Panther Lake chips for private space industry too.