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by bsder 875 days ago
Nothing. This is an attempt to cash out before the RISC-V stuff makes them irrelevant.

It has been clear for years that Broadcom no longer cares about RPI. Without that subsidy, RPi is dead.
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kcb 875 days ago
Surely, it is the year of RISC-V.
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bsder 875 days ago
Well, the fact that both Microchip and Nordic Semiconductor are shipping actual chips based on RISC-V says that if it's not this year, the year is really close.
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ErikBjare 874 days ago
Actual RISC-V chips have been shipping for half a decade, so the year has been close for 5 years.
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bsder 874 days ago
Not on Digikey or Mouser, they haven't.

Yes, there have been an assortment of dodgy "RISC-V" chips from dodgy Chinese suppliers that would appear and disappear like spectral invaders from another dimension.

Until last year, though, I couldn't plan around being able to buy and put a RISC-V chip in a product. Now I can.

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