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...why? There are like a zillion Chinese single board computers out there. What's so special about raspberry pi that it's worth a half a billion dollar valuati
by idiotsecant 3y ago
...why?
There are like a zillion Chinese single board computers out there. What's so special about raspberry pi that it's worth a half a billion dollar valuation?
- blacksmith_tb 3y agoWell, I suppose some of that suggests optimism about selling boards to commercial customers (in spite of all the assurances about still having enough to sell to hobbyists). And commercial customers, just like hobbyists, want SBCs that have decent hw and working, maintained sw. Which is sadly not the case for pretty much any of the competitors, not reliably.
- whynotmaybe 3y agoSome could say that on a European pov, it's because it's not Chinese.
- polski-g 3y agoBecause they actually provide updates and support to the platform. All the Chinese boards release a single OS, Linux packages maintained on some strange .cn domain. Something is wrong with the wifi chip driver but they don't care, they've moved on to the next iteration.
- rcxdude 3y agoThis. There are a billion SBCs on the market and most of them are irrelevant because you're stuck with some janky image from an out-of-date kernel that probably even the original company can't recreate from source. Hobbyists who enjoy tinkering with them for a few months after they buy them might not mind, but it's not gonna work for the big buyers and it's not great for educational purposes either.
- Already__Taken 3y agoI'd argue no not if they go public they can't.
- bsder 3y agoNothing. This is an attempt to cash out before the RISC-V stuff makes them irrelevant. It has been clear for years that Broadcom no longer cares about RPI. Without that subsidy, RPi is dead.
- kcb 3y agoSurely, it is the year of RISC-V.
- bsder 3y agoWell, the fact that both Microchip and Nordic Semiconductor are shipping actual chips based on RISC-V says that if it's not this year, the year is really close.
- ErikBjare 3y agoActual RISC-V chips have been shipping for half a decade, so the year has been close for 5 years.
- bsder 3y agoNot on Digikey or Mouser, they haven't. Yes, there have been an assortment of dodgy "RISC-V" chips from dodgy Chinese suppliers that would appear and disappear like spectral invaders from another dimension. Until last year, though, I couldn't plan around being able to buy and put a RISC-V chip in a product. Now I can.
- nicman23 3y agorp2040 is pretty great