The funny thing is that Intel some years ago sold its own ARM design the Xscale because it was not profitable. I think that now that ARM is the most common CPU around, they are biting their own hands. ARM history is really interesting and shows how a very innovative technology can come close to extinction if the market is not yet ready. The greatest innovation of RISC and most notably ARM design is the much lower cost of development, and production, yet it had to wait something like 20 years to have its revenge.
mic Il 29 febbraio 2012 20:08, Andre Blum <[email protected]> ha scritto: > The broadcom chip on there is of the kind that is in your iphone and other > smartphones. They are SoC's (system-on-a-chip), meaning all peripherals are > on the chip. If you look at the board you will see that there is almost no > other glue, than just what is needed to go to the various connectors. > > The iphone and android success and the competition between them has made > these chips really, really cheap. Also, the raspi foundation is a charity > organization that intends to bring kids back to the commodore 64 spirit, and > it does not care much for much margin. > > In fact, where you say that the Ni-H system can be controlled by something > similar, you are spot on: the fusioncatalyst.org open source initiative that > Bastiaan announced will use the beaglebone, which is a very similar device, > and uses the same ARM CPU core. It is here on my desk, has tons of I/O pins > and works great. The raspi is just a bit short on I/O pins, but, who knows. > I intend to buy some of them anyway :-) > > Andre > > > On 02/29/2012 02:43 PM, Jones Beene wrote: >> >> Yikes - this is not OT at all. How can they do it for the price? This >> could >> kill a big chunk of the Pic and Arduino market for microcontrollers, with >> a >> few changes. >> >> Don't be surprised if your new Ni-H system is controlled by something >> similar. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson >> >> This might be of interest to some here as well! >> >> Tiny $35 Raspberry Pi computer causes big stir on launch day >> >> >> http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/29/tech/raspberry-pi-launch/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6 >> >> >> Excerpt: >> >>> (CNN) -- The tiny $35 Raspberry Pi computer went on sale today, crashing >> >> its distributors' websites on the way to selling out within hours of >> launch. >> >> >
