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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ on sale now at $35

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

DannyB writes:

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 LoRdTAW on Thursday March 15 2018, @04:37AM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Thursday March 15 2018, @04:37AM (#652777) Journal

    It's like they copypasta'd the pi pcb into "new design 1" and went from there. I was actually excited when I heard someone stuck a 7000 on a pi board and immediatly thought, "Oh those clever bastards are hopefully going to break out BOTH hardware gigabit ports and knock the USB count down to two ports." That would have been a fucking amazing bit of kit right there. Dual gigabit AND FPGA I/O. I don't care for the pi layout much but it does have it's perks in terms of taking advantage of the existing pi ecosystem. Bonus points if rasbian, openbsd, and 9front/Harvey were ported to it and an RTEMS bsp. Ugh, such a missed oppertunity. so dumb these people.

    If I designed this I'd go this route:
    7000 soc with fpga pins on half of the header I/O and hard processor on the other (digital,i2c,spi,uart,pwm,analog)
    Camera and display wired to FPGA logic with the option to use them for whatever including dual cameras or dual displays. Or how about linking to other boards or fpga's for further expansion?
    Micro USB port provides power and/or an OTG port for device-target use (serial/debug/custom)
    Three editions:
    singe core w/single gigabit and 4x USB
    dual core w/single gigabit and 4x USB
    dual core w/dual gigabit and 2x USB, I'd call it the Dual2(™)

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