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What is TI's angle here? (Asked naively by a software person.) Is TI hoping to grab RISC-V developers/enthusiasts with the Beagleboard now (keep them from mov

by neilv 3y ago

What is TI's angle here? (Asked naively by a software person.) Is TI hoping to grab RISC-V developers/enthusiasts with the Beagleboard now (keep them from moving to Chinese RISC-V SBCs), and later migrate these users to a TI RISC-V SoC & Beagleboard when it's ready? Is this a royalties negotiating tactic with Arm? Odd negotiating tactic with US lawmakers (e.g., "If we're restricted too much in international engineering collaboration, we'll have to source a black box from China, and put it into everything")? Symbolic deal with some entity in China? Some Beagleboard business unit trying to increase its own profitability, not just a devboard to promote TI chip products? Something else?

phkahler 3y ago
>> What is TI's angle here? This isn't TI. Read the bottom of the page, it's a Michigan based nonprofit.
- neilv 3y ago
  Is there an evolving relationship between TI and BeagleBoard.org? > The BeagleBoard is a low-power open-source single-board computer produced by Texas Instruments in association with Digi-Key and Newark element14. The BeagleBoard was also designed with open source software development in mind, and as a way of demonstrating the Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 system-on-a-chip.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard That page includes the BeagleV-Ahead.
  - cushychicken 3y ago
    TI kinda sorta helped start BeagleBoard. The founder of BeagleBoard was a former TI sales or applications engineer. TI has always had a strong hand in BB hardware design because it’s effectively a reference design for them.
    - skykooler 3y ago
      Similar to how the Raspberry Pi was developed by former Broadcom engineers and as such uses their CPUs.
      - neilv 3y ago
        In both cases, there's more to the explanation than that a person used to work for the company. That explanation could be significant and nonobvious. The explanation could also change over time.

by neilv 3y ago

phkahler 3y ago

>> What is TI's angle here? This isn't TI. Read the bottom of the page, it's a Michigan based nonprofit.

neilv 3y ago
Is there an evolving relationship between TI and BeagleBoard.org? > The BeagleBoard is a low-power open-source single-board computer produced by Texas Instruments in association with Digi-Key and Newark element14. The BeagleBoard was also designed with open source software development in mind, and as a way of demonstrating the Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 system-on-a-chip.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard That page includes the BeagleV-Ahead.
- cushychicken 3y ago
  TI kinda sorta helped start BeagleBoard. The founder of BeagleBoard was a former TI sales or applications engineer. TI has always had a strong hand in BB hardware design because it’s effectively a reference design for them.
  - skykooler 3y ago
    Similar to how the Raspberry Pi was developed by former Broadcom engineers and as such uses their CPUs.
    - neilv 3y ago
      In both cases, there's more to the explanation than that a person used to work for the company. That explanation could be significant and nonobvious. The explanation could also change over time.