| Yes, it is this -- and what the sibling comment says. It's clear that at least these things have changed: 1) there is now independence from the "old smartphone processor" model Because the RP1 allows them to take control of the very bits of the puzzle that the Pi pioneered and apply them more broadly (including to x86 hardware if they chose to; they clearly did this in the development process) 2) nothing in particular stops them selling the RP1 as-is (except that they are not going to). There have been some interesting allusions very recently as to what the success of the RP2040 and the RP1 might mean for a future microcontroller lineup, but my guess would be a mid-sized processor optimised for very small educational computers and emulating larger machines. I would expect to see an RP2040 successor board based around something like the RP1 with USB-C and more concessions towards DVI/HDMI for one thing. 3) they now don't have all their eggs in the one basket (which is better for the foundation) 4) they could now choose a "partnership" model where something like the RP1 turns up in other people's hardware; there are already SBCs on the market using RP2040s for GPIO. [1,2] Essentially, what has happened is not an incremental change. It's not even particularly incremental in the Pi 5, which is architecturally new. It is a step change on the design level but also on the business level. [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/thunderberry5-sbc-to-take-... [2] https://linuxgizmos.com/low-profile-radxa-x2l-sbc-featuring-... |