Chips are expensive and socs even moreso. They don't yet have the manufacturing volume to significantly lower unit costs.
You need to understand that the original rpi was built with chips which are old of life of multiple large production runs and they had hundreds of thousands in storage.
This opened the door for cheap SBC, soc, based builds.
Chips are expensive and socs even moreso. They don't yet have the manufacturing volume to significantly lower unit costs.
You need to understand that the original rpi was built with chips which are old of life of multiple large production runs and they had hundreds of thousands in storage.
This opened the door for cheap SBC, soc, based builds.
Yea, just goes to show that CPU specs are so high that 3 or 4th generation chips are perfectly fine. Even low powered 16 bit chips are more than I need for many applications. Write code with a real compiler without the bloat of a crappy OS (sorry Bill), it turns out you can get by with very modest hardware.
Yea, just goes to show that CPU specs are so high that 3 or 4th generation chips are perfectly fine. Even low powered 16 bit chips are more than I need for many applications. Write code with a real compiler without the bloat of a crappy OS (sorry Bill), it turns out you can get by with very modest hardware.
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