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Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ Promises Better Performance, Starts at $25 (venturebeat.com)
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is adding a new device to its suite of miniature computers for industrial and enterprise customers. From a report: The charity today unveiled the Pi Compute Module 3+ (CM3+), successor to the two-year-old Compute Module 3 (CM3). The Pi Compute Module 3+ comes in four variants, starting at $25. The Raspberry Pi Compute Module is derived from the CM3 board but offers better thermal behavior under load. That's possible because of the Broadcom's 64-bit BCM2837B0 application processor, which was also used in last year's Raspberry Pi 3B+, and 1GB of LPDDR2 RAM. The difference between the four variants resides in their storage limits. The CM3+ Lite does not offer a built-in eMMC Flash, whereas other variants include 8GB ($30), 16GB ($35), and 32GB ($40) of eMMC Flash. These eMMC flash chips are more reliable and robust than normal SD cards, the foundation claims.
The Raspberry PI line is the most impressive thing coming out of computing in the last 10 years. Of course, people will say "you can get better specs...Orange Pi...blah blah blah", but Raspberry PI is organized and has the entire chain figured out.
Has Rasberry Pi upped their game in terms of sound quality yet? Also can you play HECV on a raspberry pi? These are the things that are keeping me from making one into an entertainment center.
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https://www.raspberrypi.org/bl...
Because linking directly to the original source is hard.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Too bad they don't have an industrial temperature range version (-40 to +85C)
what about better IO? more then 1 usb for all?
These eMMC flash chips are more reliable and robust than normal SD cards, the foundation claims.
I have found that SD cards, when used for an OS filesystem, tend to have pretty short life spans. This has led me to
1. Make very regular backups. If I do any significant modifications to a filesystem on an SD card, I dd the whole SD device to a backup file.
2. Recently I have been using Samsung's high endurance SD cards. More expensive, hopefully they survive longer.
They are the same price to 2.33x the cost of a RPi, with integrated gigabit ethernet, usb3, 1,2,4GB of ram (LPDDR3 or LPDDR4 for Pro), have better video decoding and clock rates. And in the case of the Pro, PCIe x4 slot and 2 Out of Order cores for even better performance at the expense of security.
And that is assuming you don't just buy and reflash a real chinese android box, of which there are hundreds of models all for the 30-120 dollar pricepoint with features competitive or superior to the Rock64s.
These people really do not know how to design hardware. I wonder where they messed up this time because they have no clue what they are doing. That hole piece of hardware screams "amateurs".
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Well it's a non-profit thing owned/run by the university.
At least that's how Roger Thornton described it when I talked to him about at CES 2018.
Obvious troll is obvious.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
You're working against people taking you seriously again. It's funny that your ego just can't let you "lose" this even as simple and stark as it is. Ad hominem is your go-to next, after absolute-fact-opining? Quelle surprise.
Perhaps you might want to actually look into the facts before spouting utterly incorrect suppositions. A quick search of Companies House and two minutes reading of the financials show that less than 25% of the staff earn more than £60,000 a year and the highest paid person at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the 2017 (last year will full published accounts) earned less that £150,000 in the year, on a little over £28,000,000 in turnover. Over at Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd. Eben Upton takes no salary and his wife Liz (who runs communications) earned £38,984 in the year and they paid out just over £11.5K in expenses to Dr. Upton. Assuming that "the executives who run it" are the highest paid people there, they hardly seem to be making themselves "rich". In Silicon Valley that would be considered a substance wage.
If intelligent life is too complex to evolve on its own, who designed God?
One thing I loved about the Intel Edison was the seamless support for LiPo batteries. Of course, Intel is as fickle as Google when it comes to killing off good products, so the Edison is no more, much to my disappointment.
With the caveat that I'm a SW guy, and only an amateur HW tinkerer, I tried for a very long time to prototype a decent charging/step-up converter that could be tacked on to the compute module. Never got anything stable, and in the end ran out of time. (I suppose I could have lifted Sparkfun's design, but the chip they used is very difficult to work with, even if you are reasonably comfortable with surface-mount/reflow construction)
Other than that I'd love to have time to tinker more with the CM, but most of my projects involve a battery.
Eben also works for broadcom
troll
No. "are paid a salary from Raspberry Pi Foundation of less than." This is an incredibly important distinction since executives at non-profits are frequently engaged in related activities which may profit from the actions of the non-profit. One extreme example of this are the members of standards boards, who are often executives at companies that benefit indirectly from the evolving definitions of various standards in their industry. Their position on the standards board may be seen in the dual light of a charitable activity but also as a lobbying role of their corporate position. In the second light, their corporate paycheck is the one of interest.
I am not familiar with the extracurricular activities of Raspberry Pi executives, but I would be very surprised if none of them profited indirectly from the activities of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
/me checks driveway hopefully for Ferrari
That's not what he said and you know it. He's talking about your big boss. Eben is being paid by Broadcom. People don't work for free. So which Ferarri does HE drive?