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Raspberry Pi 3 announced for $35

Raspberry Pi 3, Broadcom have supported us with a new SoC, BCM2837. This retains the same basic architecture as its predecessors BCM2835 and BCM2836, so all those projects and tutorials which rely on the precise details of the Raspberry Pi hardware will continue to work. The 900MHz 32-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU complex has been replaced by a custom-hardened 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53. Combining a 33% increase in clock speed with various architectural enhancements, this provides a 50-60% increase in performance in 32-bit mode versus Raspberry Pi 2, or roughly a factor of ten over the original Raspberry Pi.

1.2GHz Quad-Core Broadcom BCM2387 ARM Cortex-A53 processor, Dual Core VideoCore IV GPU
802.11 b/g/n Wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.1 (Bluetooth Classic and LE)
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 RAM, microSD Card Slot
Operating System: Operating System Boots from Micro SD card, running a version of the Linux operating system or Windows 10 IoT
Dimensions: 85 x 56 x 17mm
Power: Micro USB socket 5V1, 2.5A
Ethernet: 10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket
Video Output: HDMI (rev 1.3 & 1.4, Composite RCA (PAL and NTSC)
Audio Output: 3.5mm jack, HDMI, USB 4 x USB 2.0 Connector
GPIO Connector: 40-pin 2.54 mm (100 mil) expansion header: 2×20 strip Providing 27 GPIO pins as well as +3.3 V, +5 V and GND supply lines
Camera Connector: 15-pin MIPI Camera Serial Interface (CSI-2)
Display Connector: Display Serial Interface (DSI) 15 way flat flex cable connector with two data lanes and a clock lane