<div dir="ltr">Oh dear. That's pretty amazing. The only microcontroller on ARM that comes close in price, that I know, of, is the mcHack, and this has a GPU built in...<div><br></div><div>... The only way this could get better is if intel takes note and drops the price of its x86 embedded line. I was pretty happy with the Pi2 -- this is an amazing deal for anyone making a project around the pi.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Joseph</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Jason Cobill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason.cobill@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.cobill@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div> I imagine most of you will have already heard this morning, but the new Raspberry Pi Zero (based on the Pi 1 architecture, but a bit faster) is $5!<br><br> <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/" target="_blank">https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/</a><br><br></div><div> Even at $35 is was a pretty disruptive price - at $5 they've become virtually disposable.<br></div><div> I wonder if other architectures are going to try to compete with an offering at this price, or if components this cheap have margins too slim to be profitable.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div> -Jason Cobill<br></font></span></div>
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