USB connected with drive mount?

[BrianM]

I think not. The production has been transferred to a Sony factory in Wales and is commissioned by R-Pi foundation. The whole thing is taking everyone by surprise - they're just inundated with orders. (40,000 at a time, swallowed up by back orders)
But what a great story - and I've met Ebden, David Braben and Jack Lang and am delighted they have (another) success on their hands!

[sambul13]

That's interesting to hear, the production was moved FROM CN, while SONY makes most of their stuff on well known CN factories - the same huge CN factories which make electronics for other OEMs - just give them your drawings and schematics. The number 40K/month sounds impressive. "The government of a country in the Middle East has expressed interest in providing a board to every schoolgirl, in order to enhance their employment prospects".

Don't forget that 100 Mbit/sec is max spec standard rate, may have little to do with actual link max.

[BrianM]

There's a good article about Raspberry Pi here:
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/09/raspberry-pi-insider-exclusive-sellout-to-sell-out/

[sambul13]

The article is indeed interesting. It shows again, what true entrepreneurship is. And Ebden is definitely a talented guy, well prepped for the task by his Broadcom job and access to their Datasheets and engineers. In fact, Broadcom entire strategy reverts around field_task-on-chip. Still unclear, why such a board would take 6 years to design given layout design software broadly available?

This board may in fact create a revolution in schools similar to 1st Macs appearance. The entire PC industry can look at restructuring and giving some room to such product lines. It also a good stimulus to kids to learn sciences. Great stuff, quite powerful. Look even at other ARM devices - they converted plenty of unsuspecting novices into Linux hackers.

[pepedog]

Sorry to correct, but his name is Eben.

[moonman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pepedog', 'S')orry to correct, but his name is Eben.

[pepedog]

To be fair, BrianM first spelt wrong.
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3888&p=22067&hilit=+ebden#p22067

[sambul13]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'D')on't worry, you are not the first to correct sambul13

[moonman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sambul13', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'D')on't worry, you are not the first to correct sambul13

[BrianM]

My fault - Eben is (at least here in Blighty) a pretty unusual name.
So, please put your handbags down guys...