DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
…Unless the DRAM pricing situation changes radically , I think the hobbyist SBC market is dying—or at least on life support. And I don't just mean Raspberry Pis, but all SBC…
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DRAM, or dynamic random-access memory, is a volatile computer memory technology that stores bits in capacitors and requires periodic refreshing to maintain data.
…Unless the DRAM pricing situation changes radically , I think the hobbyist SBC market is dying—or at least on life support. And I don't just mean Raspberry Pis, but all SBC…
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