🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>The world of integrated circuits is a whole lot more interelated than we think;</p><p>I got curious about why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Broadcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Broadcom</span></a> makes the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoC</span></a> for the best-selling <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> of all time and yet they don't make any other consumer computers.</p><p>Turns out that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BCM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCM</span></a> series of chips is used in lots of other places; network equipment, phones, wearables, set-top boxes, infotainment systems in cars!</p><p>There are <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RaspberryPis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPis</span></a> everywhere!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hardware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sbc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sbc</span></a></p>