[liz_upton]

I work for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and I can assure you that the chip exists. If you do a bit more googling, you'll find it's in already out there in the millions in other devices - the Roku set top box, for example.

That thread you linked to is from early on in the summer, before we had finished negotiations with our vendors and had documentation in place that allowed us to say that the SoC we are using is the BCM2835. If you search for BCM2835 on our website, you'll see that since then there's a lot of discussion about it with the name there in full.

We're all on track to have the first units out by the end of the year (which will be auctioned) and to be producing them in large numbers in January - there's not much more I can say to dampen your speculation, so I guess you'll just have to wait so you can watch us pull it off.

[ChuckMcM]

This is perhaps the best news I've heard today. I don't suppose you could liberate a datasheet from Broadcom and post it to your web site somewhere could you? I'm totally down for 10 of those $35 boards but I want to be able to talk to the graphics side of the chip and have had no luck at all getting any information at all from Broadcom. OMAP docs I've got coming out of my ears though.