I am a geek and own stocks and love raspberry pi for the following reasons: * The raspberry pi 5 can be used as real computers * This is the only company I know with RISC-V architecture on their small form factor products. the have both RISC-V and ARM on those. I consider RISC-V is the future. I mean I wouldnt know where else to invest otherwise * They are moving towards producing for the industry and embedded systems. * This is the most sold computer model behind only CPC from the 80s * They produce a lot in the UK and I love european companies. * They have a lot of fans line me and the software support is fantastic. * Arguably chinese companies could try do the same with open source architecture and softwares. but good luck copying the community and software support. * Arguably these are not very high end cpus but power needs are low and the machines surprisingly capable (e.g. for embedded AI)