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Official, Customized Raspberry Pi Versions Coming Soon (linuxgizmos.com)

Posted by timothy on from the no-one-wants-any-durian-pie dept.

DeviceGuru writes: The immensely popular Raspberry Pi will soon be offered in customized versions, through an exclusive arrangement between Raspberry Pi Trading and Element14. According to the companies' announcement, Element14 will provide design and manufacturing services to OEM customers to create 'bespoke designs' based upon the Raspberry Pi technology platform. That's weird U.K. English for saying that contracts for creating customized Raspberry Pi SBCs will entail substantial NRE fees and 3,000 to 5,000 unit orders, depending on the nature of the customization. The tweaked Pi's are likely to have revised board layouts, additional or alternative functions, interfaces, connectors, and memory configurations, and more. A handful of unsanctioned Raspberry Pi knock-offs have already appeared over the past couple of years, including various Orange Pi and Banana Pi flavors, which certainly didn't involve any 'bespeaking.' More info is at Element14's CustomPi page.

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  1. Re:"English, motherf..., do you speak it?" by risom · · Score: 4, Informative

    and I couldn't actually find what "SBC" means.

    Single Board Computer.

  2. Re:!education by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can view videos just fine on it without paying to for a codec. now if you are trying to view an Archaic out of date and not even used anymore video Mpeg2 or VC1 using the hardware acceleration? then you pay. mplayer and VLC plays every single video format under the sun on it just fine.

    Come on back when you actually know something about the Raspberry Pi and stop making things up to sound like you know what you are talking about.

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  3. Re:Finally! by washu_k · · Score: 4, Informative
    The RPi is slow, but not that slow. The issue with using the full 100 mbit is the shitty NIC on the shitty USB bus. I've used 100base-T at full speed on far slower machines than an RPi, but they had proper NICs.

    The RPi 2 would have a good chance of handling gigabit if it had a proper NIC.

  4. Re:Finally! by threephaseboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Indeed, it does not seem to have anything of the sort.
    I'm guessing the target devices (smartphones, etc) wouldn't need anything resembling high speed networking.
    For what it's worth, the Banana Pro (half the cores, higher clock, same A7) has a gigabit NIC, and I've gotten >500Mbps with it.

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