learning that it was to be deployed in an Educational market, Broadcom
could not exactly say "no".
+In eight years, 36 million "Pi" units have been sold. However this is not
+all the same processor: there are four variants (Model A/B thru Pi 4). Thus
+actual quantities sold through the Pi Foundation of any one given processor
+average only around a million units, each processor. As above: 1 million
+sales barely covers the NREs.
+
In the intervening years, despite persistent requests on Pi Forums,
even efforts by the Raspberry Pi Foundation themselves to see a non-Broadcom processor
be developed and deployed have not been successful because a Pi-only-centric
-processor does not have a large enough market share to justify the NREs.
+processor *does not have a large enough market share to justify the NREs*.
**The lesson here is that a low-cost processor must cover multiple markets
to be successful**.