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Raspberry Pi Announces RP2040 Chips For $1
Earlier this year the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico with RP2040 microcontroller for doing embedded development. Now that RP2040 chip is being sold for just $1 USD via their resellers for those wanting to build their own electronics with this Raspberry Pi silicon.
[...] The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced they have shipped over 600k Raspberry Pi Pico boards this year and orders for another 700k. More creators and other businesses meanwhile have been seeking to build out their own wares using the RP2040 chip, which has now led the group to offering the chip for $1 USD in single-unit sales. By this autumn they expect "serious volume" of the RP2040 chips for those looking to build out their own wares with this tasty silicon.
Raspberry Silicon update: RP2040 on sale now at $1
Also at CNX Software. Alasdair Allan says:
Today's announcement is for single unit quantity only. We're still figuring out what reel-scale pricing will look like in the autumn, but we expect it to be significantly lower than that.
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday June 02 2021, @01:57PM
Sure it's the cost for the one ship. But it's nice for those that build or order their own pcb:s and naturally it won't include other components. That said I doubt the quite small board and the few extra components and connectors will be or amount to much. Add a couple of dollars more for the compete board at most I would say. Apparently three extra bucks if you order the entire Pi Pico for the grand total sum of $4, which I gather include the work and all components etc. Give it some time and they'll be even cheaper then that.
But I still find it nice that they offer this so that you can infact make your own or in most cases I guess just perhaps solder your own from some github project where you just grab the gurbers and bom and then do the work yourself.