On: Raspberry Pi is preparing for an IPO in London for...

[bsder]

Nothing. This is an attempt to cash out before the RISC-V stuff makes them irrelevant.

It has been clear for years that Broadcom no longer cares about RPI. Without that subsidy, RPi is dead.

[kcb → bsder]

Surely, it is the year of RISC-V.

[bsder → kcb]

Well, the fact that both Microchip and Nordic Semiconductor are shipping actual chips based on RISC-V says that if it's not this year, the year is really close.

[ErikBjare → bsder]

Actual RISC-V chips have been shipping for half a decade, so the year has been close for 5 years.

[bsder → ErikBjare]

Not on Digikey or Mouser, they haven't.

Yes, there have been an assortment of dodgy "RISC-V" chips from dodgy Chinese suppliers that would appear and disappear like spectral invaders from another dimension.

Until last year, though, I couldn't plan around being able to buy and put a RISC-V chip in a product. Now I can.