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The whole "maker" phenomenon is full of cases of willful ignorance like this. The idiocy of using a part from a notoriously closed company and with no public da
by userbinator 1y ago
The whole "maker" phenomenon is full of cases of willful ignorance like this. The idiocy of using a part from a notoriously closed company and with no public datasheet was just the beginning.
- Liftyee 1y agoI'm not sure about onsemi's openness, but I found the public datasheet for the U16 power regulator affected (NCP6343) with one search [1]. As the article explained, the Broadcom SoC has nothing to do with this fault. I don't think "makers" should be brought into this - to me, "makers" include individuals who may not have any formal engineering education just putting ideas together. Of course it's a different story for actual companies selling a product such as Raspberry Pi - the engineering standard should rightfully be higher. [1] https://www.onsemi.com/download/data-sheet/pdf/ncp6343-d.pdf https://www.onsemi.com/download/data-sheet/pdf/ncp6343-d.pdf