You can probably already get that if you order a somewhat significant amount of chips directly from Raspberry Pi. They seem to already have everything required for it, it's literally just setting a bit differently during factory programming.

But I'm assuming you're talking about for consumer use, in which case my question is why? There is absolutely no way you're ever benefiting from them spinning up an extra SKU with significantly less volume (most people want the ARM cores).

Even if they decide to eat the costs for the benefit of consumers, at most the chip would be what, 15 cents cheaper? I really struggle to see how that's a meaningful difference for hobbyist use.

> You can probably already get that if you order a somewhat significant amount of chips directly from Raspberry Pi.

It's not currently possible. As of the A3 stepping, the ARM_DISABLE OTP bit is ignored as a security mitigation - changing that would require a new mask revision.