From ac8e5bd84dc72eb22c076120c6bcf8519ca5610c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:46:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- 22nm_PowerPI.mdwn | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/22nm_PowerPI.mdwn b/22nm_PowerPI.mdwn index 2ad457bf7..aab071fec 100644 --- a/22nm_PowerPI.mdwn +++ b/22nm_PowerPI.mdwn @@ -32,10 +32,16 @@ that it went into the Raspberry Pi at all (selling in far smaller quantities) wa 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**. -- 2.30.2