Raspberry Pi discusses what’s new in Raspberry Pi Pico 2

In the latest issue of The MagPi Magazine, Raspberry Pi CTO James Adams provides a closer look at what’s new in Raspberry Pi Pico 2.

Fundamentally, it’s going to be a very similar experience to Pico, where developers will download the SDK and it will all look very, very similar in terms of building software, compiling software.

There are two interesting things from the circuit perspective: one is that we’ve doubled the Flash memory, so you’ve got 4MB on Pico 2 vs 2MB on the original Pico. The other is to do with the way that power is supplied to the chip.

One of the highlights of the RP2350 chip are the faster M33 processor cores, as opposed to the M0+. We also have RISC-V cores in there – that’s the Hazard 3 as created by Luke Wren, who’s one of our employees.

We’ve got two M33 processor cores running at 150 megahertz, so they’re roughly twice as fast as RP2040, though it will depend on your use case.

You’ve got twice as much SRAM, which  is going to help with any general stuff, but especially with running things that are quite SRAM heavy, like MicroPython. The PIOs have had various improvements based on what we’ve learned from RP2040, to be more efficient and allow for more use cases. And you’ve got an extra one of them in RP2350.

Check out the whole post on Raspberry Pi News.


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