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Raspberry Pi Upgrades Compute Module With 10 Times the CPU Performance (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Raspberry Pi Compute Module is getting a big upgrade, with the same processor used in the recently released Raspberry Pi 3. The Compute Module, which is intended for industrial applications, was first released in April 2014 with the same CPU as the first-generation Raspberry Pi. The upgrade announced today has 1GB of RAM and a Broadcom BCM2837 processor that can run at up to 1.2GHz. "This means it provides twice the RAM and roughly ten times the CPU performance of the original Compute Module," the Raspberry Pi Foundation announcement said. This is the second major version of the Compute Module, but it's being called the "Compute Module 3" to match the last flagship Pi's version number. The new Compute Module has more flexible storage options than the original. "One issue with the [Compute Module 1] was the fixed 4GB of eMMC flash storage," the announcement said. But some users wanted to add their own flash storage. "To solve this, two versions of the [Compute Module 3] are being released: one with 4GB eMMC on-board and a 'Lite' model which requires the user to add their own SD card socket or eMMC flash." The core module is tiny so that it can fit into other hardware, but for development purposes there is a separate I/O board with GPIO, USB and MicroUSB, CSI and DSI ports for camera and display boards, HDMI, and MicroSD. The Compute Module 3 and the lite version cost $30 and $25, respectively.
The article shows a picture of it being used in the back of an NEC monitor.
Are there any other examples of industrial controls or places that these live?
Raspberry Pi one can easily emulate Nintendo. I have Emulation Station/RetroPie running on a Raspberry Pi 3 and it runs NES, SNES, SEGA all fine. Even works for some N64 games pretty well.
Hell, I've had a Raspberry Pi one emulate a frickin' IBM System/370 mainframe.
And it probably runs faster than the original did!
There's a torrent for a 128GB sd image that has damn near every game ever made for NES, SNES and a bunch of other old consoles on it. I downloaded it and after writing it to a card I booted and was playing games a few minutes later. It's so easy it's almost stupid. Rpi3 is great until you get to N64 and dreamcast stuff. That's asking a little too much although some of the N64 games seem playable. Earlier than N64 and it's no problem at all. Haven't tried overclocking it yet.
and it's maybe a slow P3 speed.
That sounds fishy, though. Even though the 1+ GHz A53 cores could be substantially worse per-clock than the P3 - I doubt that, though -, there's still four of them. The average total performance should be quite a bit higher.
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