alt Hacker NewsWhat do you mean by mainstream?
There’s whole sectors of industrial and automotive using these AMP SoMs. And relative to these RPi only recently began providing options that you could design into an embedded product at all. Their FAE and supply presence is way behind.
By "mainstream" I mean "the bulk of development work done", not "the bulk of units shipped".
The boards that people reach for when they roll their first projects, the hardware that ends up in early prototypes and one-off devices, the hardware that gets targeted by open source projects. The chips that return more than a "databrief" 8 pages long and a single page on a vendor site inviting you to visit the snake pit with "contact sales for more information". The boards you can actually buy with a fixed price tag and a delivery to door, and can find writeups on how to use them for specific things.
If you know what "FAE" is, let alone can get into a meeting with one, you're deep in the trenches, and are pretty much expected to wrangle an extremely poorly documented MCU core that happens to be shipped in a SoC as an afterthought into submission.