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I agree with the sentiment, but mobile devices have also seen a plunge in sales. Many in the industry expected 2B units/year, but it maxed out around 1.6B. The
by kurthr 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but mobile devices have also seen a plunge in sales. Many in the industry expected 2B units/year, but it maxed out around 1.6B. The last few years have seen volatility, between 1.2-1.4B. Last year was the worst since 2016, and the next worst was 2020.
Only Apple has been relatively flat, and probably only they and Samsung are very profitable.
Most of the profitability in "PC" (GPU/CPU) has really been datacenter for 5 years. Again, Intel executed badly, but the decision to focus on datacenter was right.
- throwaway5959 4y agoNow all the cloud vendors are making their own chips. This had to have been obvious given how a small company in the UK could build the Raspberry Pi.
- gruez 4y ago>This had to have been obvious given how a small company in the UK could build the Raspberry Pi. According to wikipedia they use chips from Broadcom. I'm not sure how a small company being able to make SBCs using chips from a massive multinational is indicative of how easy it is for cloud vendors to "make their own chips".
- zinekeller 4y agoPreviously, you're correct, but no longer: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/rp2040.html https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/r...
- bsder 4y agoUm, no, the Pico doesn't run Linux. If you want a Linux RPi, the chips are still Broadcom.
- throwaway5959 4y agoThe moment RPis were released it was obvious to me that eventually cloud providers/data centers would be using ARM chips due to Intel’s margins. At the scale of millions of chips it makes sense to save money on each chip.