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> Raspberry Pi _could_ have offered 4GB+ of it, and they could also have quadrupled the price. Raspberry Pi's SoC does not support more RAM than the 1 GiB that
by wolfgke 8y ago
> Raspberry Pi _could_ have offered 4GB+ of it, and they could also have quadrupled the price.
Raspberry Pi's SoC does not support more RAM than the 1 GiB that it now has. This is as far as I am aware considered a serious problem by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
I don't know by what they thus plan to replace the SoC in the future.
- alias_neo 8y agoThis is what I was alluding to. There was an interview recently with Eben, where he explained that the SoC needs an upgrade to give them more (faster) peripherals and the ability to add more RAM. I can't find the source at the moment. As I understand it the SoC in the Pi was some older IP that was licensed to them (RPF/Eben) for free (or close to) by Broadcom. The RPF will have to sink so significant cost into a new SoC (and I choose to believe that this is already happening, as we speak).