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New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches

Posted by samzenpus on from the brand-new dept.

First time accepted submitter MicroHex writes Coming in at the same $35 price-point that has come to be expected from the Raspberry Pi, it looks like the new Model 2 will be packing a quad-core ARM processor with a GB of RAM. From the article: "The Raspberry Pi Foundation is likely to provoke a global geekgasm today with the surprise release of the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B: a turbocharged version of the B+ boasting a new Broadcom BCM2836 900MHz quad-core system-on-chip with 1GB of RAM – all of which will drive performance "at least 6x" that of the B+."

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  1. Still ARM11, still a crappy CPU by marcansoft · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why are they still shipping the same CPU core that was in the iPhone 2G? ARM is at least 3 generations ahead already. ARM11 doesn't have NEON (proper SIMD) instructions, so it's crap for multimedia processing (sure, they make it up for the usual codecs with their GPU core, but that doesn't help if you want to write your own code).

    Seriously, when the Pi first came out one of my first complaints was that the CPU core was woefully outdated and I already owned several boards with much more recent ARM cores, and several years later they still haven't upgraded it? WTF? What sense does this make? Does Broadcom not have a license for more modern ARM cores? Are the licensing fees too high to ship it in a low-cost product? (Answer: no, plenty of Chinese SoC vendors are doing it). What's the issue?