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Looking at Broadcom's part numbers, it's not a "current" product but it seems to fit in the same series of numbers as their 3G baseband processors and mobile mu
by pointyhat 15y ago
Looking at Broadcom's part numbers, it's not a "current" product but it seems to fit in the same series of numbers as their 3G baseband processors and mobile multimedia processors.
I get the feeling it's a new mobile multimedia processor (judging by the HDMI+ARM+3d graphics supprot) which is being conveniently repurposed.
I reckon it'll be on the market soon enough but don't expect to be able to get anything out of Broadcom unless you want volume. Even Farnell don't carry their parts.
- gravitronic 15y agoSounds congruent to what we've experienced in the past. Even worse is attempting to get customer support from them when you find massive problems in their part but you only ship a few thousand a year... It just irks me that while the Raspberry Pi in itself is a great product that will be a minor revolution, its impact could be so much greater if this chip was available to all developers. I guess I should shut my mouth, at least the second product to get the chip is a somewhat philanthropic effort and not another streaming media box.
- pointyhat 15y agoSounds like any large vendor :) I agree with you. I'll put my RMS hat on here, but I'm concerned that it's a 100% proprietary platform for education. The old BBC Micros that we had here in the UK were made out of standard bits and had schematics so you could strap what the hell you liked to them (or modify them). They were replaced with utter proprietary crap from Research Machines and it has been like that ever since. We need some open hardware as well if you ask me.