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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 3, Informative) by canopic jug on Thursday March 15 2018, @06:16AM
The 3B+ only is an easy, incremental improvement not a major step forward. It's not intended to be a major step and it's not time for a major step.
The basic Raspberry Pi 3 was released back in 2016 [raspberrypi.org]. Eben Upton has mentioned many times publicly that he wants to keep the boards on a three-year release cycle more or less, if he can. I can't find references to that goal but it is out there in quite a few places. Three years, more or less, after 2016, would be 2019. So look for the big changes in the next board in 2019 +/- 6 months. It'll be hard because of the high expectations, so it is much better for him to take his time and do it right and avoid anything like the death flash [raspberrypi.org] or worse.
BBC Radio 4 had a really good interview with Eben Upton [bbc.co.uk] back in January about the project. There's no transcript, but it is only 28 minutes and since it is radio you can do some physical task while listening. One of the interesting items was the rationale for the Raspberry Pi Zero. For decades computer manufacturers have set price points and then filled the machine with as much as they could within that limit. The Raspberry Pi Zero took that in the opposite direction and was an exploration to see how they could drill down in price and still have a functional board.
Of the incremental steps found in the 3B+, I am so glad that the wireless is 5GHz finally. We're at the point in time where 2.4GHz should have been long since abandoned, especially in crowded RF environments like schools. I hope it is used to gather money for a serious improvement in the 4.
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