Raspberry Pi 3 is out
Raspberry Pi 3 is out
[Announcements] Posted Mar 1, 2016 22:26 UTC (Tue) by ris
The Raspberry Pi 3 has been
released and is on sale now for $35. "For Raspberry Pi 3,
Broadcom have supported us with a new SoC, BCM2837. This retains the same
basic architecture as its predecessors BCM2835 and BCM2836, so all those
projects and tutorials which rely on the precise details of the Raspberry
Pi hardware will continue to work. The 900MHz 32-bit quad-core ARM
Cortex-A7 CPU complex has been replaced by a custom-hardened 1.2GHz 64-bit
quad-core ARM Cortex-A53. Combining a 33% increase in clock speed with
various architectural enhancements, this provides a 50-60% increase in
performance in 32-bit mode versus Raspberry Pi 2, or roughly a factor of
ten over the original Raspberry Pi.
" (Thanks to Forrest Cook)