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Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO (www.londonstockexchange.com)

submitted 1 year ago by RobotToaster@mander.xyz to c/raspberrypi@lemmy.ml

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"Raspberry Pi Ltd, a leader in low-cost, high-performance computing, announces that it is considering an initial public offering (the "IPO" or the "Offer") and that it intends to publish today a registration document (the "Registration Document"). The Company is considering applying for admission of its ordinary shares to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the FCA and to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange ("Admission")."

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

SBCs already had a few issues.

ARM Mali driver absence from most distros.
Compute modules are now standard with 5V rails, making battery operation clunkier, because data centers.
And for a very long time, the 4x MIPI buses were hidden on Raspberry Pis, locking users out from most screens to hack to them.
MIPI itself relies on custom "ignition" codes (don't know what the actual architectural names were for them), that can in theory, be so personalized each individual display and camera could be locked to the SoCs to the point the display itself would need the "ignition" code.

My speculation: I think a lot of these were made to hinder making actual portable devices a lot more clunkier than they need to be. For displays, many use the HDMI port instead. Even official stuff has its own clunk, like the Pi 400 using USB specifically for keyboard, all while an I2C or SPI would have been more than sufficient. The GPIOs of those SoCs were made for this kind of purpose.