The CPU from the original PlayStation is guiding a probe to Pluto

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Great achievement for that glorious MIPS CPU and good choice for Sony, it was really simple, efficient and robust, that architecture is still alive and used in some fields. Good choice also for Ninty, that used the newer and more powerful 4000 series, one of the first 64bit CPUs.
I'm still angry with Intel for having deceived so many companies to make them drop 3rd party or kill 1st party RISC CPUs and adopt its crap instead, like the buggy first Pentiums that disgraced and kicked Intergraph out of workstation business, but the worst offences were persuading Compaq to kill Alpha, buying its IP for $1B from that clueless company, and SGI to drop MIPS to make them both adopt that crappy Itanium, that contributed to kill SGI itself. The last Alpha ran circles around Itanium 1 and despite already old and not developed anymore was still able to tie with Itanium 2, God knows where computing would be if Alpha weren't killed, and I suspect the sudden steps forward that pulled Intel CPUs out of the swamp where they were bogged down during the 6 years when Athlons almost always outperformed them, at least for the desktop versions, were taken thanks to the part of Alpha tech that could be adapted to x86 architecture. But those improvements, despite enough to lead x86 architecture again, where quite meh compared to the incredible performance supremacy Alpha had on any other architecture in its golden days.