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bsder on April 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from...

> In fact, I'm currently supporting a product shipping with the RPi 3B in quantities large enough to qualify as "real quantities".

How did you get pricing and volume from Broadcom? I'm genuinely interested as that stopped a project I was working on completely cold.

We simply couldn't get them to care about 1K-2K parts.

pritambaral on April 19, 2018 [–]

We don't talk to Broadcom. As you note, they simply do not care if you're not very big fish. Fortunately, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a big enough fish, and they do care, so we talk to them instead.

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