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Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi (www.anandtech.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I found this interesting in the comments:

Hmm, Raspberry Pi Ltd. joins RISC-V group (Jan 2019). Raspberry Pi Ltd. releases Rpi5 with a unified Rpi1 I/O chip (Oct 2023) freeing them from being tied to a particular SoC family. ARM Ltd. invests in Raspberry Pi Ltd. (Nov 2023). Hmmm...... Really seems like a "here's some cash, stay ARM."

Can you imagine the marketing impact of a RISC-V RPi board after all these years of it being ARM based? Sure, the number of boards effected isn't huge, but it's the marketing impact of losing a flagship product that needs to be considered.

Source: https://www.anandtech.com/comments/21120/arm-acquires-minority-stake-in-raspberry-pi/790281

[–] Mischala@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

Fukkin' well figured.
But I'm not sure they are looking to jump anyway. Jeff Geerling reviewed a (supposed) drop-in replacement for the compute module, and it didn't seem like it's quite ready for the primetime.

But, that is only one chip design, I'm sure Rpi could land it better.

Exciting to see more open technology getting some steam behind it.

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Very, very interesting. Thanks for sharing