Well, to quote Gordon Hollingworth on the original post:
"In future we’ll have to do something, but for Pi 5 we feel the hardware encode is a mm^2 too far."
Also, Raspberry Pi Foundation and Broadcom have been really working together on successors since the... BCM2787 in the Raspberry Pi 3, if I remember correctly? Broadcom still reserves the right to sell to anyone, but the Pi is still the primary customer for those specific chips now.
"In future we’ll have to do something, but for Pi 5 we feel the hardware encode is a mm^2 too far."
Also, Raspberry Pi Foundation and Broadcom have been really working together on successors since the... BCM2787 in the Raspberry Pi 3, if I remember correctly? Broadcom still reserves the right to sell to anyone, but the Pi is still the primary customer for those specific chips now.