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by aselzer 4036 days ago
But ARM != compatible with the Raspberry Pi.

The GPIOs, GPU, booting process, etc. is all specific to it, and I guess manufacturing a compatible processor would need complicated if not almost impossible reverse engineering and might violate Broadcom's copyright or some contracts.

And a lot of commercial products, programs and libraries depend on the Raspberry Pi, so they have to be able to continue making compatible products.