The Raspberry Pi 2 delivers 6 times the processing capacity of previous models. This second generation Raspberry Pi has an upgraded Broadcom BCM2836 processor, which is a powerful ARM Cortex-A7 based quad-core processor that runs at 900MHz. The board also features an increase in memory capacity to 1Gbyte.
Broadcom BCM2836 SoC
Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7
900 MHz
Dual Core VideoCore IV® Multimedia Co-Processor
Provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
Capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and DMA infrastructure
1GB LPDDR2
Boots from Micro SD card, running a version of the Linux operating system 85 x 56 x 17mm
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Ahh!
So THAT’S the reason for the ’embrace of death’ on adafruit.com today!
Well, for a while; now you’re out of Pi 2’s!!
Looking forward to it. Such a fantastic team, those RasPi folks.
Just an amazing product.
Mike Y
Dallas, Texas
Will the processor reference manual for this version be available?
Sounds like the perfect Pi to host my weewx (for the Davis Vantage Pro2 ISS), my ADS-B Ground Station, and the HF WSPR beacon, all on the same device.