[Ixio]

The linked blog post https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-product-raspberry-pi-3-... has more info and is interesting.

In it they say "Back in March, we explained that the 3+ platform is the final iteration of the “classic” Raspberry Pi", I've tried finding the corresponding blog post but didn't have any luck. Does anyone know where I can read more about this ? I'm interested in hearing more about their need for "new core silicon, on a new process node, with new memory technology".

[happycube]

Basically they're reached the limits of what you can do with a 40nm process within (well, mostly) the power/thermal limits of USB microB with a basic heat spreader. While the ARM A53 cluster would almost certainly be available in smaller nodes, the uncore has sort of outlived it's welcome anyway.

[StudentStuff]

This line of chips from Broadcomm can only support 1GB of Ram, a hard limit for what type of applications one can put on it. Meanwhile, other SBCs have mainline kernel support now and boast 2GB or even 4GB of Ram.