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Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Compute Module 3+, the Last 40nm-Based RasPi

posted by martyb on Tuesday January 29 2019, @06:06AM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

Raspberry Pi Foundation says its final farewells to 40nm with release of Compute Module 3+

The Rasperry Pi Foundation has updated its Compute Module with better thermals, an updated application processor and bucketloads of flash memory (in Pi terms, at least).

The Compute Module 3+, a System on Module (SoM) board, is part of a hardware family that's been around since 2014 with the launch of the CM1. That original rocked a single-core Arm processor clocked to 700MHz, 512MB RAM and a mighty 4GB of eMMC.

Three years later, the Compute Module 3 put in an appearance with the 1.2GHz processor of the Pi 3 and 1GB RAM. Two years on, and the Compute Module 3+ is carrying on the tradition, adding the Broadcom BCM2837B0 processor from the Pi 3B+ into the mix. [...] power supply limitations will keep the CPU at 1.2GHz instead of the 1.4GHz of the Pi 3B+.

[...] The foundation plans to keep Compute Module 3+ available until "at least" January 2026 and, in words that will be bring joy to Pi fans the world over, stated this is "the last in a line of 40nm-based Raspberry Pi products" indicating a clearing of the decks before the next generation makes an appearance.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 29 2019, @06:44AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 29 2019, @06:44AM (#793452) Journal

    What good is a "compute" node if you can't run a Beowolf cluster of those?

    How can I run a Beowolf cluster of those? Veeerrryyy ssslllooowww, limited by the speed of 330Mbs [raspi.tv] (40something MB/s) via USB2 [raspberrypi.org] (last linked is hardware spec for the C+ model - PDF warning - see the "peripherals" section).

    Why can't they put at least a full 1Gb ethernet on it?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 29 2019, @09:03PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday January 29 2019, @09:03PM (#793739) Journal

    Hopefully these limitations can be solved in the upcoming Raspberry Pi 4 and related products.

    Whatever die shrink we see could substantially boost performance over 40nm, perhaps to the point where you might actually want to connect to it and "compute".

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 29 2019, @10:25PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 29 2019, @10:25PM (#793799) Journal

      perhaps to the point where you might actually want to connect to it and "compute".

      Googling raspberry pi cluster [google.com] will show a quite old interest in this. At least as old as 2014 if not earlier (on mobile now, the ducking Google removed custom date range capabilities for mobile, for "better customer experience" no doubt)

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