New Raspberry Pi with 8GB of RAM

The Raspberry Foundation has just announced its new Raspberry Pi , a model that arrives to complement and improve the current catalog of this popular development board. So, let’s see what it offers and for how much they offer it. That ultimately has always been one of the main attractions of this device.

The main and most striking change is undoubtedly the increase in RAM memory. They recently abandoned the 1GB model and were left with 2 and 4 GB of RAM, but already in their day they planned to offer a version with twice the memory of that maximum capacity.

Now we have it here, the new Raspberry Pi 4 Model B offers 8 GB of RAM . This increase has been thanks to the work of BBC Micron that has managed to deliver a chip with this capacity and that adjusts to the needs of the Raspberry Pi design. Although it is not the only physical change.

The new board has had to change some minor but equally important components in order to manage well all the energy needs of the new chip. A change that does not affect any of the other connections that it already offered, such as the two USB 3.0 ports, the Ethernet connection, USB C port and the GPIO connector for all the other options that it allows when using accessories such as the new one. camera etc.

Regarding prices, the three current models are as follows:

• Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 GB of RAM costs 39 euros
• Raspberry Pi 4 with 4 GB of RAM costs 59 euros
• Raspberry Pi 4 model B with 8 GB of RAM costs 84 euros

The price increase for this double capacity of RAM is noticeable, but it is still attractive. In addition, it is designed for more demanding uses. The vast majority of current projects are carried out perfectly with the 4 GB model. What’s more, we do not rule out seeing a new option with 16 GB in the future, because the controller supports such a quantity.

Raspberry Pi OS and the jump to 64 bits

Along with the launch of this new version, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has also made two other interesting announcements. The first is that Raspbian changes its name . The operating system developed by the company itself is renamed Raspberry Pi OS . An insignificant name change for some, but important to highlight that it is the official version, which gives guarantees and also value to the project.

The second and even more interesting is that a 64-bit version is already being worked on . This represents a change in the ere kernel, so it will still take a long time to arrive in bulk and publicly for download by any user interested. However, there are other operating systems for Raspberry Pi that you can install and that offer 64-bit support, in case you want