News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development

> "...: It sounds like the key feature will be 'more': a faster CPU and faster IO, rather than new features."

Raspberry Pi Holdings is a embedded systems manufacturer for pity's sake; we don't need more from them, we need less. [EDIT] A faster Raspberry Pi 6 is encroaching on the territory of the Intel N150 and its successors and mainstream Linux distributions and that is a battle they would lose in terms of price and performance.

Give us a Raspberry Pi Zero 3W with proper sleep states to reduce sleep power consumption, lower idle power while awake, and 1 GB of RAM even if it doubles the price.

The 8GB Pi 5, at $170 [1], is encroaching on Jetson Orin Nano Super's $240 price point [2]. But the Jetson has a faster CPU (newer a78ae cores rather than a76) and, obviously, a whole-ass GPU.

[1] https://www.microcenter.com/product/673711/raspberry-pi-5

[2] https://www.microcenter.com/product/691058/nvidia-jetson-ori...

I have bought an rpi at every generation. And I still have yet to find an actual use for them.

Everything they do from a compute perspective is just better with a mini pc or old laptop with a mobile spec chip.

Everything they do from a programmability perspective is just better with a microcontroller specific to the task.

I just don't see the actual market position for these things. They were supposed to be a cheap board, but you can't actually buy them cheaply because the vendors upcharge so much.

Pi's refusal to drop a USB-C on Pico due to cost increases is a terrible call IMO.

I seriously cannot fathom being someone doing development who wouldn't pay $0.50 extra to purge the last micro USB from their desktop.

Would love to see actual security focused hardware/software features, like full OP-TEE, fTPM (or a more ideally a real physical TPM), and similar. For example, so that the OTP isn't the only way to store a disk encryption unlock key.

The existing secure boot mechanisms aren't bad, but allowing for more than one public key hash in OTP would be nice, too.

These kinds of things are expected to be on modern embedded SOCs and SOMs now.

I recently found out about the Radxa Dragon Q6A. A Qualcomm chip with faster CPUs, a good GPU, a DSP and AI accelerator, and a hardware video encoder seems very compelling. It even supports Windows if you want that for some reason.

I run the media lab at one of Europe's must prolific art universities. The variant I tend to use most is the 3B+.

Reasons: - full sized HDMI connector - headphone connector - good bang for the buck

If I had one wish for any new product in the Raspberry line it would be: Do the Raspberry Pi 3++ or something. Same thing. Faster, but with USB-C power connector, 4K Video resolution, 2× USB-C I/O, 2× USB-A peripherals and maybe M.2 support.

The raspberry pi CEO said that some of the boards will be delayed because of RAM prices.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Raspberry-Pi-discusses-Zero-3-...

The only way I'll buy another raspberry pi is if they come with a power supply that's guaranteed to work with them. I got tired of the random reboots in the night and replaced my media center/NAS with an old Nuc.

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