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The consensus in the comments seems to be that these boards were designed for another product that was scrapped and now being sold off as a SBC. So stock is li

The consensus in the comments seems to be that these boards were designed for another product that was scrapped and now being sold off as a SBC. So stock is likely to be extremely limited.

zeckalpha 8y ago
Wasn’t that true of the SoC on the original Raspberry Pi, too? There is a pattern of “offcuts” becoming productized if they stumble into a niche.
- kingosticks 8y ago
  Videocore 4 processors were also used in a bunch of phones and media boxes. The fact the Raspberry Pi was built on it was more because Eben Upton had worked on it. But it is fair to say they wouldn't have fabbed anywhere near as many had it not been for the Raspberry Pi. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore
candiodari 8y ago
... and it's no longer listed on Amazon. Link no longer works, search finds nothing: https://amzn.to/2IV6tKN https://amzn.to/2IV6tKN
- tracker1 8y ago
  The page/link comes up for me... afaik it sold out really quickly.