ARM invests minority stake in Raspberry Pi

Arm Holdings plc has announced that they have made a strategic investment in Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi is originally intended for students but they have become a tool to develop Internet of Things (IoT) prototypes and items. After securing their agreement with ARM, the latter company gained a minority stake in Raspberry Pi.

“Arm and Raspberry Pi share a vision to make computing accessible for all, by lowering barriers to innovation so that anyone, anywhere can learn, experience and create new IoT solutions,” said Paul Williamson, SVP and GM, Internet of Things Line of Business, Arm. “With the rapid growth of edge and endpoint AI applications, platforms like those from Raspberry Pi, built on Arm, are critical to driving the adoption of high-performance IoT devices globally by enabling developers to innovate faster and more easily. This strategic investment is further proof of our continued commitment to the developer community, and to our partnership with Raspberry Pi.”

The CEO of Raspberry Pi, Eben Upton, has stated, “Using Arm technology as the foundation of our current and future products offers us access to the compute performance, energy efficiency and extensive software ecosystem we need, as we continue to remove barriers to entry for everyone, from students and enthusiasts, to professional developers deploying commercial IoT systems at scale.”