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> or even buy them if you are not a large company Because of the cost? Or do they refuse to deal with small companies?
by viewer5 10y ago
> or even buy them if you are not a large company
Because of the cost? Or do they refuse to deal with small companies?
- xienze 10y agoThey normally deal in massive quantities. Asking for a couple thousand units just isn't worth the effort. That's what makes the RPi Foundation unique -- Broadcom _does_ deal in small quantities for them in support of the mission.
- wolfgke 10y ago> Broadcom _does_ deal in small quantities for them in support of the mission. Rather: originally in support of the mission. :-)
- 0xcde4c3db 10y agoThe latter. Their chips aren't sold through distributors, and they'll pretty much only give the time of day to high-volume OEMs. They stonewall companies that are big enough to get in-person visits from sales engineers from other major vendors (TI, Freescale, Xilinx). Raspberry Pi cofounder Eben Upton was a technical director at Broadcom, so he had inside connections.