Intel CPUs didn’t have proper GPIO, I2C, SPI baked in…
Mayhaps Intel didn’t see the need (profitability) in such an undertaking. When you have a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, with community and documentation settled nicely on the market, one does not simply undertake such odds.
they can get that without changing their architecture and also…
I’m certain that the market isn’t eagerly waiting, with bated breath, to purchase x86 SBCs just because GPIO is included in the package.
ARM (The Raspberry Pi foundation specifically) currently has the momentum in that market. When you want compute, you x86. When you want to signal the thing that computes, low powered ARM SBCs are currently the jobby.
I’m certain that the market isn’t eagerly waiting, with bated breath, to purchase x86 SBCs just because GPIO is included in the package.
Some industries are. Those ARM CPUs are unable to pass most harsh compliance tests and GPIOs on the industry are expensive and not as practical as they could be with a SBC. Right now the industry depends on very closed solutions that are a hard and expensive to deal with, or in big x86 machines with FTDI bridges for I/O.
Even if the SBCs can only serve a very small fraction of professional users during COVID we saw what happened to the stocks and that the Pi guys had to prioritize those markets.
Hobbyist users of SBCs are just the testing ground and initially the way to make it popular, the industry has the real numbers and scale but you can’t just enter that market as easy.
Mayhaps Intel didn’t see the
need(profitability) in such an undertaking. When you have a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, with community and documentation settled nicely on the market, one does not simply undertake such odds.I’m certain that the market isn’t eagerly waiting, with bated breath, to purchase x86 SBCs just because GPIO is included in the package.
ARM (The Raspberry Pi foundation specifically) currently has the momentum in that market. When you want compute, you x86. When you want to signal the thing that computes, low powered ARM SBCs are currently the jobby.
Some industries are. Those ARM CPUs are unable to pass most harsh compliance tests and GPIOs on the industry are expensive and not as practical as they could be with a SBC. Right now the industry depends on very closed solutions that are a hard and expensive to deal with, or in big x86 machines with FTDI bridges for I/O.
Even if the SBCs can only serve a very small fraction of professional users during COVID we saw what happened to the stocks and that the Pi guys had to prioritize those markets.
Hobbyist users of SBCs are just the testing ground and initially the way to make it popular, the industry has the real numbers and scale but you can’t just enter that market as easy.
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