Would ma'am care to supersize her order with an extra 200MHz of 64-bit Arm CPU? It is Pi day (assuming you live in a country that insists on writing dates in the frankly barking mad MM/DD format) and after a quiet two years, the Raspberry Pi Foundation have pushed out a new version of the tiny computer. In news guaranteed to bring joy to hobbyists and nerds the world over, the $35 Model 3 B+ now features a 64-bit 1.4GHz quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 system-on-chip, up from 1.2GHz in the previous incarnation. The SoC is a Broadcom part: the BCM2837B0. It is wired to 1GB of RAM. The new chipset also features improved wireless performance, with a doubling of data rates in the 5GHz band. In a nod to FCC compliance, the radio circuitry is now covered by a metal shield, which allows the Pi team to have the entire device classified as a radio module. Industrial users will be delighted with the reduction in con...
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