The official Raspberry Pi town foundation
responsible for designing and manufacturing the range of Raspberry Pi mini PC
systems has today announced the availability of its new Raspberry Pi Compute
Module 3+ (CM3+). Offering users greatly improved the performance, RAM
capacity, and Flash capacity and is an “evolution of CM3 and CM1” Compute
Modules. The new Pi CM3+ Compute Module will be available until at least
January 2026.
The CM3+ contains the guts of a Raspberry Pi 3 Model
B+ offering a Broadcom BCM2837B0, Cortex-A53 (ARMv8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.2GHz with a
choice of LPDDR2 SDRAM. The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ is available in four
different specifications starting from US$ 25 for the CM3+/Lite , US$ 30 for the
CM3+/8GB, US$ 35 for the CM3+/16GB and US$ 40 for the CM3+/32GB. The foundation has
also released a refreshed Compute Module 3+ Development Kit today.
This kit
contains 1 x Lite and 1 x 32GB CM3+ module, a Compute Module IO board, camera
and display adapters, jumper wires, and a programming cable.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation also explains that they
are moving the “legacy” CM1, CM3 and CM3 Lite products to “not recommended for
new designs” status. Although the hardware will still be available to purchase
until January 2023 as previously stated by the foundation. The development team
to recommend that customers use the latest CM3+ Compute Module for new designs,
and where possible move existing designs to CM3+ for improved performance and
longer availability.
