I wonder if the future of Raspberry Pi products will be going even lower-end, rather than dealing with the complexities of making a competitive Pi n+1
RPi has a foothold primarily due to the community and software support. I'd love to see that get broken up, but building that took years, which is not what most fly-by-night places and clone shops are interested in doing. I say this as someone who largely depends on RPi 3 and 4 models for embedded work and would prefer to switch to something like oDroid (and we have to some degree), not necessarily as someone who is an RPi lover.
I hope that the foundation's supply is for real and the pricing gets down to normal market rates.
https://github.com/Hao-boyan/rk3588-TRM-and-Datasheet https://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Main_Page
For the raspberry Pi 4b, the publicly available documentation for the BCM2711 SoC is laughable, barely 160-odd pages long and missing key details (such as which timers are accessible from the ARM core, and which are accessible from the GPU).
P.S. if anyone knows where to find the full TRM for the broadcom BCM2711, I'd be really grateful if you got in touch or sent me the pdf.
the effort is better spent on nearly any other arm soc
The pine boards are far more open, and the whole company is just "we give you the hardware, you self serve the software". They have a few good "pi alternatives", and some more "exotic" stuff. I've been playing around with their ox64 board and am enjoying it so far