Apple Silicon, in its first incarnation as the M1 System-on-a Chip, combined with a new macOS version is about to expand Apple’s share of the PC market — at Intel’s expense.
Hardware is hard, goes the Silicon Valley cliché. The statement seems to prove true time and again: Promising hardware companies routinely fail due to production and manufacturing challenges, high burn rates, unsustainable profit margins, or an inability to successfully navigate the retail and marketing worlds.
While the recent earnings warning from GoPro was seen as a disaster, it’s quite possible that the situation for this briefly high-flying camera company is even worse than it appears. But GoPro’s fate is also an indicator of a larger problem that’s sweeping across independent hardware startups.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has now sold more than 10 million units of its Raspberry Pi mini computer.
For the uninitiated, the Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized contraption designed as an easy point of entry for budding programmers and tinkerers, and it has come a long way since its inception way back in 2012.
