Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 39
EXACTLY! They have so much of a bandwidth issue that they need old slow GPUs in space to compress data that much?? Sounds to me if you were going to replace the thing often with newer hardware it might make sense if you are worried about signal jamming and getting data quickly to some point on the ground that is portable and under powered... It might give you fractions of a second; but the real world physical actions are not as time critical as people tend to think.
So your missile response might fail to be quick enough that this matters; however, that is not likely a common situation and better planning can have more impact -- such as not blowing money on crazy expensive solutions than simply building a few 1000 more cheap drones... (which is where this might help those since they'd not have the compute but again, so what if they are a bit slower; plan around their limitations and throw more at it.)