News Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi

[Admin]

Arm Holdings plc makes a strategic investment in Raspberry Pi Ltd, now it holds a minority stake in the popular single board computer company

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[ClarkMills]

This may stifle RP's eventual transition to RISC-V; I'm not suggesting that migration happen tomorrow but it was on my wish-list.

 

[dcarnage]

Ahh, so this is how the Raspberry Pi Foundation dies...

 

[bit_user]

With the rise of RISC-V CPUs in devices ranging from $9 to hundreds of dollars it is clear to see that we will not be seeing a RISC-V based Raspberry Pi for the foreseeable future.

That's the rather obvious notion, isn't it? I just don't see it, however. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is serious about long-term support. It took them forever even to upgrade the OS to 64-bit and they've stuck with Broadcom and its beleaguered VideoCore GPUs for the entire ride. I think the last thing they want to do is switch to RISC-V, but if ARM now has voting shares, that's guaranteed not to happen.

Doesn't really matter, though. There are plenty of other boards that are embracing RISC-V, and it probably won't be too long before the market converges around a couple leading brands, with a degree of community support approaching that of the Pi.

I am glad to hear that ARM is appreciating the role that the Pi has played in their success, from on boarding new developers to providing a platform for porting & optimizing legacy code for ARM cores.

 

[bit_user]

Ahh, so this is how the Raspberry Pi Foundation dies...

Why do you say that? Given that the Pi Foundation was already wed to Broadcom, how much worse can it be with ARM onboard?