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Ironically the Pico is the one where they seem to have an abundance of silicon (they sell the actual RP2040 chip by the thousands in reels, and there's plenty o
by geerlingguy 5y ago
Ironically the Pico is the one where they seem to have an abundance of silicon (they sell the actual RP2040 chip by the thousands in reels, and there's plenty of stock.
Most of that's down to how tiny the actual silicon is for the RP2040—you can print hundreds (thousands?) on a single silicon wafer.
- wanderer_ 5y agoYep, some have credited this to the 'completely re-imagined' design of the chip. I don't know about that, but they aren't very big. Maybe it's due to the logo-shaped BGA :) Also, there's some things you just can't get in a VM, like power management or the absolute worst kind of bugs: networking bugs! https://xkcd.com/2259 https://xkcd.com/2259