The Raspberry Pi Foundation is ready with a huge surprise as they are all set to release Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, which is a turbocharged version of the B+. The latest version has a new Broadcom BCM2836 900MHz quad-core system-on-chip with 1GB of RAM, which means it will work six times faster than the B+ model.
Foundation head Eben Upton spoke to The Register last week and he said the PC is ready to be used now. From the outward design, the Pi 2 cannot be much differentiated from the Pi 1 Model B+. The BCM2836 SoC is being under development for two years now, as Upton has revealed. He also said it’s quite similar to its predecessor, BCM2835 but it has four cores and little tweak which will boost the RAM performance.
The new BCM2836 contains four ARMv7 Cortex-A7 cores with 1GB RAM. Upton, who is a chip architect at Broadcom, said the latest SoC can run applications faster and even if a multi-threaded benchmark is not run on it, it still can deliver three times better performance on just a single core. With the faster running device, people can benefit a lot with image processing kind of stuff. Upton explained further people who want to do computer vision things like OpenCV, they can be better performed on this Pi 2.
The Pi 2 will be sold at the same price like the B+, $35. Upton has further told that they have sold 60,000-70,000 fresh B+ models since its launch and they have been quite popular among industrial customers. The Pi 2 goes on sale from today, but as Upton thinks migration to the newer model will be slow as customers prefer to stick to the already existing models more.
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