The cheapest member of the Raspberry Pi family of single board computers now has a successor: the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W.
Introduced today by the UK manufacturerRaspberry Pi computers, the Pi Zero 2 W is powered by a 1GHz processor that the manufacturer claims provides 5x more multi-threaded performance than the 2015 Raspberry Pi Zero.
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Installed on a board measuring 65×215;30 mmquad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 processor clocked at 1 GHz. The heart of the board is the Raspberry Pi RP3A0 system package (SiP), which combines the Broadcom BCM2710A1 SoC (the same one used in the Raspberry Pi, albeit at a lower clock speed) and 512 MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM. Raspberry Pi claims that the updated processor in the Zero 2 W not only delivers a significant jump in multi-threading, but also a 40% improvement in single-threaded performance.
WiFi 2.4 GHz is available from wireless interfaces(b/g/n) and Bluetooth 4.2. In terms of physical connectivity, there is a MicroSD card slot, a CSI-1 camera slot, a USB on-the-go (OTG) port, and a 40-pin GPIO header. Video output is via the mini-HDMI port. Thanks to the similar size and connectivity, the Zero 2 W can be used as a replacement for the original Pi Zero and Zero W, which also means the new board will fit into most existing Raspberry Pi Zero cases.
It is also the co-founder's favorite productRaspberry Pi by Eben Upton. “Of all the products we have launched, Zero – this is the one I'm most proud of: it most fully embodies our mission – give people access to tools and remove cost as a barrier”, – wrote Upton in a blog post announcing the new device.
Source: raspberrypi
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