Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”

Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip” by sosborn on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:08PM (#23705210)

> Just because Kramer didn't know the process behind writing things off, doesn't mean that there isn't a real process and it isn't being used in this case.

I'm not saying it isn't a real process. I'm saying it isn't magic. Reducing your taxable income by $1,000 doesn't mean you save $1,000.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip” by monocasa on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:11PM (#23705233)

I never said it did.

But marking your engineers' spare time as donated since your contract owns everything they produce anyway, and selling chips at cost and marking the profit as a donation when you were probably going to take a loss on them does in fact net you ahead.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip” by joezydeco on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:12PM (#23705977)

My gut says these SoCs are being sold below cost.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip” by monocasa on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:30PM (#23706212)

IDK, even rpi4 is still on 28nm which is the cheapest process per gate right now. And they really have very few gates allthibgs considered. I could absolutely see somewhere between $5 and $10 at cost, not counting R&D.

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