Variscite announces the support of Yocto over its iMX6 System-on-Modules
Variscite develops, produces and manufactures a powerful range of System-on-Modules (SoM) and Single-Board-Computers (SBC), consistently setting market benchmarks in terms of speed and innovation. Today Variscite’s cost sensitive high-performance portfolio serves over a thousand customers in over 50 countries worldwide.
The Yocto project was announced in 2010 to enable the creation of Linux distributions for embedded software that is independent of the underlying architecture of the embedded software itself.
Variscite’s support of Yocto over its iMX6 solutions aligns with the company’s strategy to provide its customers with a complete set of leading embedded software and hardware solution, reducing development risk, cost and time-to-market.
Variscite’s Yocto v4.1 Dora release supports iMX6 Solo, Dual Lite, Dual and Quad processors with a variety of speed grades, memory sizes and interfaces. More information can be found at https://dev.variscite.com/
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As AI-driven demand accelerated through 2025, memory chip shortages developed as semiconductor manufacturers shifted capacity to large-volume buyers, leaving many sectors, including medical, industrial, edge/IoT, and robotics poorly served. Climbing prices and lengthening lead times, exacerbated by knock-on effects across other SoM components, have created two clear pressure points. SoM vendors relying on outsourced manufacturing have limited flexibility when availability drops, leaving customers facing the same delays. Separately, product developers who chose chip-down architectures over SoM-based designs must procure components on their own. Those buying in smaller quantities are routinely pushed down supplier priority lists, and in many cases cannot get supply at all.
