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Raspberry Pi 3 Rolls Out With Faster CPU, On-Board Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth

Posted by timothy on from the happy-leap-day dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The original Raspberry Pi went on sale four years ago, and more than 8,000,000 units have shipped since then. Raspberry Pi computers are used in schools and universities, in factories and other industrial applications, in home automation and hobby projects, and much more. Today the Raspberry Pi 3 was announced, featuring a 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU clocked at 1.2GHz, making it roughly 10x the speed of the original Pi 1. Many people will be pleased to hear that the Raspberry Pi 3 also features on-board Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, greatly improving the device's connectivity. The new device goes on sale today at the usual price of US $35. (Here's the official announcement itself.)

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  1. Ethernet by arth1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But still the same ethernet that goes over the USB bus?

  2. Re:Awesome by LWATCDR · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For a basic door opener yes but maybe they want it to include a BLE interface to the cell phone or even using the camera and Open CV to have it identify the car and automatically close the door.
    It really depends on the feature set you want but the ESP 8266 could do a simple open the door when you use an app on your smartphone.

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  3. Please give us 64-bit OS, too by m.alessandrini · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They say they are investigating if it's worth porting raspbian to 64 bits. I'd say: YES! What's the point in having a 64-bit CPU if you cannot exploit it fully?

    1. Re:Please give us 64-bit OS, too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      ^ exactly this.

      Where isn't there a 4 GB RAM or 8 GB RAM option ??

      One of the RasPi Foundation staff on the official website comments said that there is some sort of architectural limitation with Videocore 4 which Broadcom builds into the SoC that prevents them from moving past 1GB. They can't get around that without swapping SoC supplier, which they seem very reluctant to do.