The new powerful Raspberry Pi 3 is available to buy, for a price of USD35



The excitement around the Raspberry Pi products is growing at the rapid pace around the world; this UK's organization founded in 2012 is celebrating its fourth birthday with over eight million unit in shipments and the release of Raspberry Pi 3 ; on sale for $35.

This special mini-card computer features:
  • A 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU (~10x the performance of Raspberry Pi 1)
  • Integrated 802.11n wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.1
  • Complete compatibility with Raspberry Pi 1 and 2
  • A new QUAD Core Broadcom BCM2837 64bit ARMv8 processor (running an ARMv7 operating system) running at 1.20GHz, a significant increase from 900MHz on the Raspberry Pi 2,
  • improved power management and an upgraded switched power source - up to 2.5 Amps - to support more powerful external USB devices,
  • more possibilities for IoT and embedded projects;
The new Raspberry Pi 3 is also bringing up three new accessories:
  • The new 16GB NOOBS Micro SD card featuring all of the software users need to get started quickly and easily
  • A 2.5A Raspberry Pi power supply,
  • A new Raspberry Pi 3 case
The new Raspberry Pi 3 is available to buy from Farnell element14 in Europe, and CPC in the UK.