I'm not sure there's the absolutely massive untapped demand that is being suggested from hobbyists, though it is going to sell a lot to them (in the 10,000s, maybe more).
I picked up a BeagleBone[1] last week, made by Texas Instruments for £60, which has significantly more CPU power than the Raspberry, 256MB of RAM and has embedded Ethernet (so is more comparable to the $35 model).
So while D-Link and Netgear aren't exploring this area, TI definitely are, and are very much in a position to roll out millions of these devices if the demand is there.
However I think the Raspberry Pi exists in it's current form to drive demand for a bulk order from governments as an educational tool, and if someone ordered either the BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi for every 10 year old child then I think that would be a brilliant step.
Looking at the Beaglebone, it seems to have a very different target market to the Raspberry Pi; judging from the single USB port, the lack of display adapter and the large number of GPIO pins, one would say the Beaglebone is primarily aimed at hackers, particularly hardware hackers. The Pi on the other hand is aimed at getting people into programming and teaching general computer skills to those who otherwise couldn't afford a computer.
I couldn't see my parents figuring out how to get a Beagleboard hooked up to their TV and surfing the net, but I could definitely see them doing this with a Raspberry Pi unit.
I'm sure I have heard of another board recently that was neither the Pi nor the Beagleboard that had similar specs to the Pi in terms of design, but used the same A8 as the beagleboard, clocked at 1.5GHz or something. But that project was just in its infancy, so won't be available till next year. I'm somewhat sceptical because they're throwing around specs like >1GB of NAND flash, >1GB DDR3-800, etc. for 40% less cost than the Pi.
EDIT: Someone linked it below, Rhombus Tech, using some Chinese-manufactured chip.
I picked up a BeagleBone[1] last week, made by Texas Instruments for £60, which has significantly more CPU power than the Raspberry, 256MB of RAM and has embedded Ethernet (so is more comparable to the $35 model).
So while D-Link and Netgear aren't exploring this area, TI definitely are, and are very much in a position to roll out millions of these devices if the demand is there.
However I think the Raspberry Pi exists in it's current form to drive demand for a bulk order from governments as an educational tool, and if someone ordered either the BeagleBone or Raspberry Pi for every 10 year old child then I think that would be a brilliant step.
[1] http://beagleboard.org/bone