Phone has ~500x the compute of all Earth's computers at Apollo-era time
kevinnbass · x · 2026-09-03
Building on Elon Musk's remark that a phone outcomputes the entire Apollo program, kevinnbass ups the ante: a modern phone has roughly 500 times more compute than all existing computers on Earth combined at the time of the Apollo program.
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