Boards with single memory chips are hit the hardest. When you increase the memory you have to go with a much denser individual chip and the denser the chip the more expensive it is.
I think moving away from the standard board size would kinda defeat the purpose. All the projects designed to fit the Pi formfactor would be useless. They’d have to design a whole new line, and have none of the ecosystem they’ve built to support it.
Boards with single memory chips are hit the hardest. When you increase the memory you have to go with a much denser individual chip and the denser the chip the more expensive it is.
Couldn’t they have made the board a bit bigger? Even throwing in older ram would have been a win if it meant keeping prices down and total ram size.
I think moving away from the standard board size would kinda defeat the purpose. All the projects designed to fit the Pi formfactor would be useless. They’d have to design a whole new line, and have none of the ecosystem they’ve built to support it.
Then why did they have a model A and B? Couldn’t they have a C or BE (extended)
The board sizes remained pretty much the same though, a pi 5 can fit in lots of 3b project without huge changes.