>This had to have been obvious given how a small company in the UK could build the Raspberry Pi.
According to wikipedia they use chips from Broadcom. I'm not sure how a small company being able to make SBCs using chips from a massive multinational is indicative of how easy it is for cloud vendors to "make their own chips".
The moment RPis were released it was obvious to me that eventually cloud providers/data centers would be using ARM chips due to Intel’s margins. At the scale of millions of chips it makes sense to save money on each chip.
According to wikipedia they use chips from Broadcom. I'm not sure how a small company being able to make SBCs using chips from a massive multinational is indicative of how easy it is for cloud vendors to "make their own chips".