I’m certain that the market isn’t eagerly waiting, with bated breath, to purchase x86 SBCs just because GPIO is included in the package.
Some industries are. Those ARM CPUs are unable to pass most harsh compliance tests and GPIOs on the industry are expensive and not as practical as they could be with a SBC. Right now the industry depends on very closed solutions that are a hard and expensive to deal with, or in big x86 machines with FTDI bridges for I/O.
Even if the SBCs can only serve a very small fraction of professional users during COVID we saw what happened to the stocks and that the Pi guys had to prioritize those markets.
Hobbyist users of SBCs are just the testing ground and initially the way to make it popular, the industry has the real numbers and scale but you can’t just enter that market as easy.
Some industries are. Those ARM CPUs are unable to pass most harsh compliance tests and GPIOs on the industry are expensive and not as practical as they could be with a SBC. Right now the industry depends on very closed solutions that are a hard and expensive to deal with, or in big x86 machines with FTDI bridges for I/O.
Even if the SBCs can only serve a very small fraction of professional users during COVID we saw what happened to the stocks and that the Pi guys had to prioritize those markets.
Hobbyist users of SBCs are just the testing ground and initially the way to make it popular, the industry has the real numbers and scale but you can’t just enter that market as easy.
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