Broadcom exiting mobile market and future of RPI

[GrubbyHalo]

Hi

I was posting in another forum today and noticed that some of the broadcom engineers are anticipating losing their jobs. After a bit of googling it seems as though broadcom are cutting 2500 jobs as a consequence of exiting the cellular baseband market.

What does this mean for the future of Raspberry Pi seeing as it uses broadcom technology ?

Cheers
Garf

[ShiftPlusOne]

It could mean that lots of talented people who know the hardware inside out are available to work on the pi. It could also mean that eventually they might have to consider looking for another SoC, but I don't think it will come to that any time soon.

[GrubbyHalo]

It could mean that lots of talented people who know the hardware inside out are available to work on the pi. It could also mean that eventually they might have to consider looking for another SoC, but I don't think it will come to that any time soon.

Hmmmm i wonder if this is the reason that the B+ is the last model... Anyway i hope for the best...

[redhawk]

What does this mean for the future of Raspberry Pi seeing as it uses broadcom technology ?

The Pi will carry on but I suspect the camera side of things may become an issue since James and 6by9 are the only Broadcom engineers doing the software support.

mmmm i wonder if this is the reason that the B+ is the last model... Anyway i hope for the best...

Where does it say B+ is going to be the last model??

I don't think this is end for the Pi maybe the end for Broadcom's BCM2708 when Eben switches to a different SoC manufacturer preferably one with an ARMv7 processor.

Richard S.

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi

I was posting in another forum today and noticed that some of the broadcom engineers are anticipating losing their jobs. After a bit of googling it seems as though broadcom are cutting 2500 jobs as a consequence of exiting the cellular baseband market.

What does this mean for the future of Raspberry Pi seeing as it uses broadcom technology ?

Cheers
Garf

This is old news http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 62&t=82886

Over the last SIX months there have been posts regarding future of the Pi's BCM8235, which AFAIAA is not under the Mobile Phone CPU division which is closing, so the RPF will be OK for a few more years no need to undertake the headless chicken syndrome !

[GrubbyHalo]

Hi

I was posting in another forum today and noticed that some of the broadcom engineers are anticipating losing their jobs. After a bit of googling it seems as though broadcom are cutting 2500 jobs as a consequence of exiting the cellular baseband market.

What does this mean for the future of Raspberry Pi seeing as it uses broadcom technology ?

Cheers
Garf

This is old news http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 62&t=82886

Over the last SIX months there have been posts regarding future of the Pi's BCM8235, which AFAIAA is not under the Mobile Phone CPU division which is closing, so the RPF will be OK for a few more years no need to undertake the headless chicken syndrome !

fruitoftheloom... you are a beacon of light in a dark world of evil and repetitive posts... may you continue the good work of bringing to light those that can't type in the right keywords in the search bar.

[jamesh]

It's more like 3000 engineers....

Brcm are to continue supporting the Raspberry Pi and are forming a team specifically for it I believe. I think there is at least 5 years of solidity there.

I'm wondering what to do, I'll probably take the redundancy and look elsewhere (The financially sensible approach). But, I fully intent to keep helping out on the camera side wherever I can and I will certainly continue helping out here! It's actually got to a stage where most of the camera issues are fixed, and the Foundation now has a engineer (see above!) who is getting to grips with it on the firmware side very quickly, so things are not at all 'bad'.

[GrubbyHalo]

It's more like 3000 engineers....

Brcm are to continue supporting the Raspberry Pi and are forming a team specifically for it I believe. I think there is at least 5 years of solidity there.

I'm wondering what to do, I'll probably take the redundancy and look elsewhere (The financially sensible approach). But, I fully intent to keep helping out on the camera side wherever I can and I will certainly continue helping out here! It's actually got to a stage where most of the camera issues are fixed, and the Foundation now has a engineer (see above!) who is getting to grips with it on the firmware side very quickly, so things are not at all 'bad'.

3000 engineers! That's awful. What's your personal take on all of this ? Was it some bad choices/decisions that led to this or was it an intentional strategic move.

[fruitoftheloom]

It's more like 3000 engineers....

Brcm are to continue supporting the Raspberry Pi and are forming a team specifically for it I believe. I think there is at least 5 years of solidity there.

I'm wondering what to do, I'll probably take the redundancy and look elsewhere (The financially sensible approach). But, I fully intent to keep helping out on the camera side wherever I can and I will certainly continue helping out here! It's actually got to a stage where most of the camera issues are fixed, and the Foundation now has a engineer (see above!) who is getting to grips with it on the firmware side very quickly, so things are not at all 'bad'.

3000 engineers! That's awful. What's your personal take on all of this ? Was it some bad choices/decisions that led to this or was it an intentional strategic move.

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