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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: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Thursday March 15 2018, @08:56AM (2 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Thursday March 15 2018, @08:56AM (#652847) Journal
    The RPi Foundation gets the chips cheaply from Broadcom, but that limits what they can change each run. Adding an on-board USB2 GigE adaptor is an easy change, I don't think the BCM2837 has a PCIe controller (let alone external pinouts) - all of the existing peripherals are connected via AXI, SPI, or USB. To get a more directly connected network interface they'd need to make changes to the SoC, either adding an ethernet controller or adding a PCIe controller. Either of these options would push up the cost of the SoC a lot and not add much for the intended use case of the RPi (hint: it's an educational board, not a home router board). If you want fast networking, buy a board that's intended for that.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @03:35PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @03:35PM (#654099)

    I'm not convinced that the needed SoC changes would be a significant increase in price. You can find similarly specced alternatives with a proper GigE network port. The problem is that they want to stay with Broadcom, and Broadcom isn't supplying them with an SoC that can do GigE networking.

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Sunday March 18 2018, @12:23PM

      by TheRaven (270) on Sunday March 18 2018, @12:23PM (#654438) Journal

      I'm not convinced that the needed SoC changes would be a significant increase in price

      It would. As I said, the RPi Foundation gets a very good deal from Broadcom on the SoCs, but each revision they're allowed to change only a small number of components to keep the same deal. This is a big part of the reason why the RPi3 SoC comes with an interrupt controller designed for ARMv7 cores, for example. They could move to another supplier, but negotiating the same deal that they have with Broadcom would be very difficult.

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