By Les Pounder
Has it really been four years since the Raspberry Pi blasted onto the single-board computer scene? Well, it has and to celebrate the Raspberry Pi Foundation has released its latest version, Raspberry Pi 3, which is more of an evolution than a revolution.
The latest Raspberry Pi from the Raspberry Pi Foundation is here. Following the Raspberry Pi 2 from one year ago, it has new wireless connectivity and an improved processor that lowers the cost of having a desktop computer and opens the door board to exciting new projects from simple servers to complex sensor networks and much more.
Powered by a BCM2837 SoC (System on a Chip) and featuring a 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 quad core processor running at 1.2GHz, the Pi 3 has quite a powerful processor. However, there’s no RAM upgrade this time, which leaves it with 1GB of RAM. There is a subtle upgrade on Pi 3 is the VideoCore IV which handles video and graphics now clocking in at 400MHz compared to earlier models at 250Mhz.
Physically the Raspberry Pi 3 looks very similar to the Pi 2; the only noticeable changes are the locations …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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