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How about the fact that Broadcom essentially enabled the Pi to be created in the first place?
by dannyw 6y ago
How about the fact that Broadcom essentially enabled the Pi to be created in the first place?
- userbinator 6y agoBroadcom is neither the first nor only company making SoCs. The RPi people just happened to have someone working there.
- imwillofficial 6y agoNobody said any of those things. The Rpi is good. Broadcom makes it.
- IntelMiner 6y agoBroadcom "enabled" the Pi to be created because the SoC for the original RPi 1 was a flop. They wanted to use it for Set Top Box (Cable TV, Google TV etc) devices but couldn't find any buyers One of the engineers who worked on it worked out a deal with Broadcom to simply reuse the design and market it toward education instead
- StreamBright 6y agoAnd it boots with the GPU which is not 3D accelerated in version 4 because the whole project was done by one person who just left. This is one of most popular SBCs out there. I wish it was a bit better.
- skohan 6y agoAre there any high performance single-board computers on the market currently? I use a lot of Rpi's in personal projects, and I've been thinking about a home file server in a super small form-factor. What I would like is an SBC somewhere on the size scale of a smartphone, with performance in the range of a current flagship phone. Does something like this exist?
- StreamBright 6y agoThis is exactly what I want too. What comes close is the Pine64 Pro.