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Apparently, Raspberry markets their products as affordable but still useful. The features you’re asking for are currently way too expensive for that market. Si
by Const-me 10y ago
Apparently, Raspberry markets their products as affordable but still useful. The features you’re asking for are currently way too expensive for that market.
Single-board computers with USB 3.0 and capable of 4K playback are available, but they cost $200 or more: Nvidia Jetson TK1, Inforce 6540, etc.
- justin66 10y agoBut that just begs the question: does Broadcom have any parts on the shelf such that, if they tweaked them and sold them to the RPi project at cost, they'd fulfill those requirements? Broadcom and the RPi project can do some things in conjunction that Nvidia, for example, cannot.
- Const-me 10y agoLooks like the answer is yes, this chips are sold for $20: https://www.broadcom.com/products/broadband/set-top-box/bcm7251 https://www.broadcom.com/products/broadband/set-top-box/bcm7... However I’m not much into the hardware design, I only write some embedded software for those things. Might be reasons why it’s still too expensive: if the chip requires too many layers in the PCB, too many external components (like RAM), too much electrical power so it needs better PSU and some cooling, and so on.