> align quite well with Raspberry Pi's mission There're multiple missions, including market and uphold Broadcom Corporation's presence in various niche markets

> align quite well with Raspberry Pi's mission There're multiple missions, including market and uphold Broadcom Corporation's presence in various niche markets and advertise Broadcom throughout the various industry and market segments (also, for 4+ years, it was "sell old Broadcom stock", but finally they succeeded and RasPi3 has current, not outdated CPU). All big cheeses from RasPi foundation are big cheeses from Broadcom. And they are known to have shutdown third-party vendors who tried to use Broadcom CPUs for RasPi-like designs, nor they fancy using somebody's else chips for their stuff. Note there's nothing wrong with that - you can sell your chips (or other stuff) and make the world better at the same time (and that's what everyone does on this planet).