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Re:Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors by Havoc on Sunday April 12, 2020 @09:50AM (#22848232)
It has the potential to spawn a new eco-system. Like if you look at what happened with the raspberry pis. Other players could have pulled that off technically but didn't attempt it.
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Re:Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors by rrss on Sunday April 12, 2020 @10:09AM (#22848338)
raspberry pi didn't really have a new processor though. The original had an ARM11 core (designed and verified by ARM) that was almost a decade old when the raspberry pi launched.
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Re:Why It’s So Hard to Create New Processors by ozim on Sunday April 12, 2020 @10:35AM (#22848510)
They also leveraged existing Linux drivers and other hardware that was available to integrate without big problems.

Spawning new ecosystem is not about making something completely from scratch like processor. One have to align a lot of stars in the sky to make that happen. They had a specific goal and niche where they planted the seed for RPi.

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