Raspberry Pi gets 6x the power, 2x the memory and still costs $35 by Stacey Higginbotham.
From the post:
Makers, academics and generally anyone who likes to play with computers: get ready for some awesomesauce. Raspberry Pis, the tiny Linux computers that currently sell for $35 are getting a makeover that will give a tremendous boost to their compute power and double their memory while still keeping their price the same.
The Pi 2 boards will be available today, and Pi creator and CEO of Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd. Eben Upton says the organization has already built 100,000 units, so buyers shouldn’t have to wait like they did at the original Pi launch. The Pi 2 will have the following specs:
- SoC : Broadcom BCM2836 (CPU, GPU, DSP, SDRAM, and single USB port)
- CPU: 900 MHz quad-core ARM Cortex A7 (ARMv7 instruction set)
- GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV @ 250 MHz, OpenGL ES 2.0 (24 GFLOPS), 1080p30 MPEG-2 and VC-1 decoder (with license), 1080p30 h.264/MPEG-4 AVC high-profile decoder and encoder
- Memory: 1 GB (shared with GPU)
- Total backwards compatibility (in terms of multimedia, form-factor and interfacing) with Pi 1
Why order a new Raspberry Pi?
Well, Kevin Trainor had Ontopia running on the first version: Ontopia Runs on Raspberry Pi [This Rocks!]
And bear in mind my post: 5,000 operations per second – Computations for Hydrogen Bomb. What are you going to design with your new Raspberry Pi?
If 5,000 operations per second could design a Hydrogen Bomb, what can you do with a 24 GFLOPS video chip? Faster Pac-Man, more detailed WarCraft, or Call of Duty, Future Warfare 4?
Money makers no doubt but at the end of the day, still substitutes for changing the world.