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Comment by ChickeNES

7 years ago

IIRC, the original RasPi SoC was intended for a Nokia smartphone that was cancelled

The original RPi SoC was intended for DVRs and set-top-boxes and maybe as application CPU in midrange TVs. The design with huge-ish video accelerator and highly battery unfriendly power requirements is totally unappropriate for anything mobile, even less for anything designed by Nokia with their full-custom PMICs with internal ARM cores and so o on...