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What's the most powerful foss microcontroller/soc? I guess there are very little incentives to build powerful foss chips, or maybe it's too expensive? I guess
by jokoon 7y ago
What's the most powerful foss microcontroller/soc? I guess there are very little incentives to build powerful foss chips, or maybe it's too expensive?
I guess that's due to the tooling used around building the physical chip?
I don't know how much r&d money was spent on the rpi since the chip is proprietary, and if it's doable to spend money to develop a foss soc.
- swiley 7y agoFOSS as in the BSP? Freescale’s chips tend to be decent (we’ll see how long that lasts now that Qualcomm owns them.) although I don’t think most of them have modems or GPUs. I liked TI’s stuff but it’s definitely not meant for anything like a modern smart phone. If you meant the SOC itself... I haven’t even heard of any outside of some fringe kickstarter things.
- klohto 7y agoQualcomm doesn’t own Freescale. Freescale got bought by NXP and the acquisition by Qualcomm didn’t came through, so it’s still owned by NXP. By the way, Freescale doesn’t exist anymore and the chips that are still avail. are reaching EOL