<story><title>Milk-V Mars: RISC-V credit card size SBC</title><url>https://milkv.io/mars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>synergy20</author><text>there are so many SBCs these days.&lt;p&gt;if you use them for hobby projects, many of them are fine.&lt;p&gt;if you ever want to convert your project to something commercial, I would still consider raspberry pi and beaglebone instead based on software maturity and community support and their ecosystem at large.&lt;p&gt;I really like NXP&amp;#x27;s i.MX6&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;9 chips, I wish there are some i.MX SBCs as popular as RPi and Beagles, for both hobby and commercial applications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>squarefoot</author><text>&amp;gt; if you ever want to convert your project to something commercial, I would still consider raspberry pi and beaglebone&lt;p&gt;Last time I checked, Broadcom forced you to integrate their compute modules into your product because there was no way they would sell their CPUs alone, no matter how many of them one would be willing to buy. That is not normal in the industrial world. As an example, the Allwinner H3 used in a lot of boards is $5 each for 1000+ pieces at Alibaba, or $10 at Olimex in the EU in single quantity. It&amp;#x27;s also well documented. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;linux-sunxi.org&amp;#x2F;H3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;linux-sunxi.org&amp;#x2F;H3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Things may be different with the RP2040, which is a very interesting part, but that chip has nothing in common, except the name, with the ones running the bigger Linux capable Raspberries.</text></comment>
<story><title>Milk-V Mars: RISC-V credit card size SBC</title><url>https://milkv.io/mars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>synergy20</author><text>there are so many SBCs these days.&lt;p&gt;if you use them for hobby projects, many of them are fine.&lt;p&gt;if you ever want to convert your project to something commercial, I would still consider raspberry pi and beaglebone instead based on software maturity and community support and their ecosystem at large.&lt;p&gt;I really like NXP&amp;#x27;s i.MX6&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;9 chips, I wish there are some i.MX SBCs as popular as RPi and Beagles, for both hobby and commercial applications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freedomben</author><text>I would tend to agree, but the supply limitations of the Pis has made me re-think that.  I&amp;#x27;ve heard with commercial agreements you can sometimes get Pis easier, but for launching a new product I&amp;#x27;d be terrified that my growth would be hampered&amp;#x2F;limited by availability of the Pi</text></comment>