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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.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday January 29 2019, @05:57PM
The Raspberry Pi is about as good as it gets. Unfortunate or not, I'm not terribly certain. Companies like Broadcom, AMD, Intel, etc need to be able to make money on their designs. When those designs are 100% transparent, what's to keep the competition from stealing their ideas? I love the idea of a completely open set of hardware and software. The difference is that with software a bunch of no-names with little to no money can make a difference with just time, experience, dedication and some good ideas. As opposed to the hardware side of things, where you have to invest money in materials, and have time, experience, dedication, etc.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"