Pi 5 confirmed and the Pico’s name
Eben Upton confirms the Pi 5, another Pico and what the model number actually means.
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D uring an Elektor livestream Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton and SparkFun founder Nathan Seidle discussed their RP2040 boards. Upton explained the RP2040 name and explored the possible future of the chip. He revealed details about the 2040 designation: the number 2 is for two cores because the RP2040’s CPU is dual-core. The number 0 is for the CPU, an Arm Cortex M0+, the number 4 is for 256KB of RAM 24 x16KB. The final digit, 0 refers to a lack of flash storage. Upton imagined another chip to illustrate the convention using a quadcore Arm M3 CPU with 256KB of RAM and no flash, which he said would be called a 4340, if it existed. Upton went on to say that, if he can do one more chip with his naming convention, then it will be successful.