RPI - Raspberry Pi 3B - Goes 64-bit

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Elantric

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/29/11122950/raspberry-pi-3-announced-price-specs-release-date
Raspberry Pi Goes 64-bit
Peter Clarke
2/29/2016 06:10 PM EST


LONDON—Electrocomponents plc, which trades as RS Components, has launched the Raspberry Pi 3B, a version of the famous development board with 64-bit support.


Raspberry Pi 64bit
The Pi 3B is based on the Broadcom BCM2837 SoC, which includes a quad-core Cortex-A53 and is capable of 1.2GHz clock frequency. Cortex-A53 comply with the ARMv8A instruction set architecture and support both 64- and 32-bit addressing as well as providing backwards compatibility with the ARMv7 instruction set architecture.

The single-board computer is the same credit-card size as previous models (85mm by 56mm by 17mm) but the processor is 50 percent faster than the Pi 2B and 10 times faster than the original Raspberry Pi. It is also an upgrade in that it has Bluetooth and wireless LAN connectivity integrated on the board making it more suitable for IoT development projects. The board is priced at £24.99 (about $35) plus local taxes.

The BCM2837 SoC runs alongside a BCM43438 combo chip that provides the 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN, Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Low Energy. BCM2837 also integrates a multimedia coprocessor that provides:

· 1.2Gpixels/s of fill rate, 1.8Gtexel/s of texturing rate
· 29GFLOPs of shader compute throughput
· OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 support
· 1080p60 hardware video decoding
· 1080p30 hardware video encoding
· A hardware image sensor pipeline

The Raspberry Pi 3 boots from a micro SD card and uses the NOOBS (New Out Of the Box Software) installation manager. The standard Raspbian operating system install comes bundled with a range of productivity applications, and programming tools including Node-RED.



Most of the other I/O features are the same as previous versions of the Raspberry Pi therefore providing backwards compatibility. A Raspberry Pi 3 Compute Module I/O Board will also be available shortly from RS and Allied, enabling OEMs to develop their own Raspberry Pi 3 based solutions for many industrial applications.


http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi


MCK

Love it. With Wifi & BTLE built in and more processing power we really are getting somewhere. Love it.

Elantric


MCK

Take a look at this Kickstarter project. Perfect little frame and stand for the RPi and the official 7" touchscreen. Great package for musical applications that require a screen for interaction.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/799765240/smartipi-touch-a-raspberry-pi-touch-stand

Elantric

Amazon with Prestige Milano has the Vilros Raspberry Pi 3 Ultimate Starter Kit (Black Case Edition or Clear Case Edition) for $90 - $20 off with coupon code 7XA8X43P at final checkout = $70 with free shipping.

Includes Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, casing, 32GB microSD card, SD card adapter, 2500mA power supply, HDMI cable, 2 heatsinks, jumper wires, GPIO ribbon cable with breakout board, resistors, and more.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01DMDIGES