You partly have Eric Schmidt to thank for the new $5 Raspberry Pi

http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/mida...aspberrypi.jpgWhile many of you were supposed to be eating turkey on Thursday, you were instead geeking out over Raspberry PI's newest computer, the Zero: a pint-sized module that costs just $5. But according to a new interview, that $5 computer was originally supposed to cost around $60 -- and you have partly have Google's Eric Schmidt to thank for that reduced price. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Raspberry Pi Foundation founder Eben Upton admitted that the follow-up to the original $35 Pi was originally going to be a more powerful model, whose higher-performing internals would have put the price somewhere between $50 and $60.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/28/r...-eric-schmidt/