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The Raspberry Pi Blog announces:
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is now on sale now for $35, featuring:
- 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU
- Dual-band 802.11ac wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.2
- Faster Ethernet (Gigabit Ethernet over USB 2.0)
- Power-over-Ethernet support (with separate PoE HAT)
- Improved PXE network and USB mass-storage booting
- Improved thermal management
Alongside a 200MHz increase in peak CPU clock frequency we have roughly three times the wired and wireless network throughput, and the ability to sustain high performance for much longer periods.
Video announcement here.
FAQs:
- Not discontinuing earlier Raspberry Pi models
- Raspberry Pi 1A+ continues to be the $20 entry-level "big" Raspberry Pi
- Considering possibility of introducing a Raspberry Pi 3A+
- CM!, CM3 and CM#L compute modules continue to be available.
- Still using VideoCore
Now I am left to wonder how many amps the power supply wall wart needs to be.
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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ on sale now at $35
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @12:18AM
stage0 PXE Boot and UEFI included in uBoot... unless they mean as features of the RPi3B+ pi images, in which case ignore me.
In the former case however they have just made the Pi more like a PC and less like the 'down to bare metal' platform many people appreciated them for being. If the next step is enabling TrustZone for DRM support, then the Pi4 will be dead to me.
As to the other complaints about all the USB2.0 peripherals: Consider a Rock64 instead. 4GB of LPDDR3, a real Gigabit Ethernet port, a real USB 3.0 port, an optional wifi port (albeit for 10+ dollars extra), a 5V 3A Barrel Jack Power supply (~55 dollars before tax and shipping for the 4GB model+PSU, or ~35 with the 1GB model and PSU), onboard SPI flash for your bootloader, and optional eMMC socket based off the older hardkernel removable eMMC daughterboard. Plus a regular microsd card slot if you want it.
Downsides? It uses a Mali4x0 graphics core, and may not have composite video out (Pine64 I believe does.) If you can made do with those, and aren't in need of the drop in GPIO ecosystem of the RPi (Rock64 has both new and old Pi GPIO headers, but not every pin has the same functionality), it has all the trappings of a better network device than the RPi2,3B,3B+ and is cost competitive for the same RAM quantity, while selling models sufficiently big to act as a low end desktop replacement. If they get a PineBook spin using the Rock64 configuration for a similiar price, it could also offer a cheap and competitive netbook/cloudbook for everything except the Intel GPU at around half the cost.