With 2GB of RAM, and priced at just $50, this new entry-level product continues our mission to reduce the cost of high-performance general-purpose computing.
Today, we’re happy to announce the launch of the 2GB Raspberry Pi 5, built on a cost-optimised D0 stepping of the BCM2712 application processor, and priced at just $50.
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BCM2712C1 is a hugely complex and powerful device, with a quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 application processor running at 2.4GHz, and the latest iteration of the VideoCore multimedia platform. Alongside the features required to power a Raspberry Pi, it also contains functionality intended to serve other markets, which we don’t need. This ‘dark silicon’ is permanently disabled in the chips we use, but takes up die space, and therefore adds cost.
The new D0 stepping strips away all that unneeded functionality, leaving only the bits we need.
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One of the many advantages of building our own operating system, Raspberry Pi OS, is that we get to focus on optimising resource usage.
Project Natick néven futott a Microsoft vízalatti adatközpont projektje, ami 2015-től folyt különböző földrajzi helyeken (Kalifornia partjai, Orkney partjai). Most bejelentették: a siker ellenére a projektet lefújják, a Microsoft pedig szárazföldi adatközpontokra fókuszál inkább a jövőben.