Had you worked on it directly, or were working on other parts of the chip while at Broadcom? I've always been hoping to see some hard benchmarks. I had worked on a video codec IP for a competing (but defunct) chip, hence my curiosity :)

I'm curious about the technological history of the VideoCore. The wikipedia page [1] and Broadcom marketing page [2] don't give a lot of information to distinguish it from competing cores (such as ARM's own Mali or nVidia's Tegra line). In fact, the information I see makes it seems pretty run-of-the-mill tech of 5 years ago.

I guess I could RTFM now that it's available :D

Edit/afterthought: none of this really matters actually, as there is no other chip on the market with the BCM2835's capabilities and that is more open-sourced.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore [2] http://www.broadcom.com/products/technology/mobmm_videocore....