The much anticipated new version of the popular $35 mini-pc - The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is here. The board made appearance at the FCC website revealing all details a few days ago and is now officially released by the foundation for ordering. Major new features include a new 64-bit ARM 8 1.2GHz Quad-core Broadcom BCM2837 CPU with on-board WiFi and Bluetooth Low Energy. Everything else remains the same, the maximum power draw has been upgraded to 2.5A@5V from 1.8A@5V to allow more power hungry USB devices without a need for a powered USB hub.

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B specifications :

• Broadcom BCM2387 chipset, 1.2GHz Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53
• 1GB RAM
• 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
• 802.11 b/g/n Wireless LAN
• Bluetooth 4.1 (Bluetooth Classic and LE)
• 40 pin GPIO
• 4x USB 2.0 ports
• MicroSD card slot
• CSI camera port
• DSI display port
• HDMI
• 4 pole stereo and composite video port
• New Switched power source up to 2.5A