• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      The closest they’ve come so far is prioritizing industrial customers and compute modules for a while during a chip shortage, to my memory. Hopefully they stick to their roots in the hobbyist/educational sector.

      • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        29 days ago

        To be fair, if most of your funding (source needed) comes from industrial customers, not supplying them is a good way to lose their patronage.

        So even if it sucked for hobbyists at that moment, keeping a big player like RbP viable for the long term might not be too bad of a tradeoff.

    • Tavi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      29 days ago

      ST looming in the background, NXP desperately trying to smash their own kneecaps with a hammer and failing. ESP getting hit with a lightning bolt every time they try to read documentation they printed out but not when its digital…