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The existence of Raspberry Pi as it is, Raspberry Pi 4 in parricular, is is a huge leap forward for the humanity already. The next leap is going to be the same
by qwerty456127 6y ago
The existence of Raspberry Pi as it is, Raspberry Pi 4 in parricular, is is a huge leap forward for the humanity already. The next leap is going to be the same kind of board but with no connectors besides an increasing number of full Thunderbolt 4 ports letting you connect anything you can imagine (incl as many GPIO connectors as you need). There is no need in a zoo of connectors like M.2, U.2, SATA, HDMI etc when we can conduct PCIe, DisplayPort and USB over a unified standard wire.
- qwerty456127 6y agoBy the way, switching to a single super-fast (for the time) connector for everything (including internal hard drives) was already anticipated before the invention of SATA and even USB2 - FireWire (IEEE 1394) was meant for that.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoApple giveth. Apple taketh away.
- tenebrisalietum 6y agoThere's value in having GPIO pins not behind any bus or controller at all. Don't Thunderbolt controllers need firmware uploaded and such before they start working? How complex is Thunderbolt device and bus enumeration?
- qwerty456127 6y agoPerhaps you're right. In fact I was going to write about connectors of 3 kinds: GPIO, dedicated fan connectors and Thunderbolt-enabled USB-C but then I came to the conclusion you can also put a GPIO controller or a fan on Thunderbolt the Occam's razor suggests we should only leave Thunderbolt - because we can. Apparently Apple thinks the same as it only left USB-C conectors on their recent laptops.