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posted by mrpg on Wednesday March 14 2018, @11:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the raspberry-for-pi-day dept.

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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  • (Score: 2) by Unixnut on Thursday March 15 2018, @12:20AM

    by Unixnut (5779) on Thursday March 15 2018, @12:20AM (#652702)

    > The Raspberry series has been a wonderful groundbreaker, but I still don't think I can use this to build the firewall I want: three wired ports and NO wireless.

    What about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Pi#Banana_Pi_BPI-R2 [wikipedia.org]

    it isn't an exact match because it has wifi + BT, however you can just not enable that.

    Ok, so it isn't a raspberry pi, but the raspberry pi foundation kick stated an entire ecosystem of "pi-like" boards that maintain some software and/or GPIO compatibility, while giving you a bunch of features, from multiple Ethernet ports like the above, to SATA connectors, and more...

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