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🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>I still think it's odd that you don't see the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BCM2711" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCM2711</span></a> in any other <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SBCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SBCs</span></a></p><p>There's a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RockChip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RockChip</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amlogic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amlogic</span></a> in EVERYTHING; they use the same <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arm</span></a> cores, as the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> but in different configurations. There are versions with 3.2 USB, and 2.5 Ethernet!</p><p>There are DOZENS of devices made by a dozen or more companies using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Allwinner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Allwinner</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unisoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unisoc</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dimensity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dimensity</span></a>, or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/qualcomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qualcomm</span></a> chips, but there's only one company making <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BCM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCM</span></a> devices.</p>
🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>The world of integrated circuits is a whole lot more interelated than we think;</p><p>I got curious about why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Broadcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Broadcom</span></a> makes the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoC</span></a> for the best-selling <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> of all time and yet they don't make any other consumer computers.</p><p>Turns out that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BCM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCM</span></a> series of chips is used in lots of other places; network equipment, phones, wearables, set-top boxes, infotainment systems in cars!</p><p>There are <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RaspberryPis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPis</span></a> everywhere!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sbc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sbc</span></a></p>
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