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Revised Raspberry Pi 5 chip comes with unexpected power savings (arstechnica.com)
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[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

It's curious that things went this way. Broadcom originally made these chips for the cheapass end of the tablet market, but I thought RPi was gobbling up the entire supply. Why put in those features in the first place when the Pi5 wasn't going to use them?