On a sunny day (17 Mar 2020 15:06:47 +0000 (GMT)) it happened Theo
 wrote in
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>Jan Panteltje  wrote:
>> Cannot even find the BCM2708 in Wikipedia's raspberry list, must be an
earlier model I have?
>> Lemme google...
>> Aha!
>>  google BCM2708
>> and there is a can of worms...
>
>Broadcom tailor silicon to their customers.  For example, put it in a
>different package or with different options enabled.
>
>So the BCM2708 is the base silicon family, and the particular instance of
>that in the Pi 0 and Pi 1 is the BCM2835.  The chip in the first Pis was a
>side effect of other projects, which is why the BCM2708 is used in other
>things.
>
>The Pi 2 v1.0 used a BCM2836 (variation of 2708 with four Cortex A7 cores)
>and the v1.2 and Pi 3 used a BCM2837 (variation of 2708 with four A53
>cores).
>
>The SoC in the Pi 4 is custom for that, so it's only the BCM2711.
>
>Theo

Good info, thank you!

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