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Broadcom "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) devic
by IntelMiner 5y ago
Broadcom "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 5y 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 5y 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 5y agoThis is exactly what I want too. What comes close is the Pine64 Pro.