Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi

Raspberry is the most important project that made my family interested in &quot;computer things&quot;<p>It gathered the whole family together to play old couch-games[0], something that most powerful consoles haven&#x27;t even been close --specially with the grampas<p>Really exited about what the future will bring us!<p>0: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;emulationstation.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;emulationstation.org&#x2F;</a>

Comparing the photos to my Pi 2, it doesn&#x27;t seem very different. There&#x27;s an extra IC near the microsd card, a connector beneath the HDMI port, and a few other small changes.<p>But nothing that looks like an antenna. Any idea where that might be?<p>Edit: as lovelearning pointed out, there is a small ceramic-looking piece in the upper-left of the top side, near the GPIO pins and LVDS display connector. That might be it.

All that site returns here is<p><pre><code> FCC Federal Communications Commission Security Violation Your request looked malicious and has been blocked. You can use your browser&#x27;s Back button to return to the previous page. If you have questions, please contact the FCC at 1-888-225-5322 If you think that you have reached this page due to an error on our part, please contact let us know.</code></pre>

Given Broadcom&#x27;s connections to the project, it&#x27;s almost a surprise they didn&#x27;t have some kind of Broadcom option for WiFi&#x2F;BT earlier. Must have stung at Broadcom to be powering the most popular hobbyist ARM Linux board, but almost every one using WiFi powered by Realtek,Ralink,etc.

I&#x27;m a little disappointed that (from a brief glance at the documents) it doesn&#x27;t appear to support the 5 Ghz Wi-Fi band. I wonder if it&#x27;s a power issue, or just limited space on the PCB. The 2.4 Ghz band gets kind of crowded in dense urban environments.

Also, good on the Pi Foundation for keeping this listing in the open rather than requesting 6 month confidentiality for the pictures&#x2F;test report (which almost all companies do).

Why does Raspberry Pi not need to conform to the new &quot;standards&quot; of the FCC that require locking down firmware in routers? If it has onboard wifi, and you can turn it into a router... what&#x27;s the difference between someone installing OpenWRT on a raspi vs. installing OpenWRT on a TPLink?<p>edit: This is a legitimate question, not an opinion.

I couldn&#x27;t spot the typical wavy PCB antenna pattern anywhere. Is that small cube in the upper left corner of external top view a ceramic antenna? Looks to me like the 2 LEDs have been shifted further down towards lower left and replaced with something new.<p>Update: Just noticed the radio testing report says single PCB mounted chip ceramic. I still can&#x27;t spot it with certainty.

I love how the FCC still has a Sun web server

Neat :) It&#x27;d be cool if they use non-usb ethernet too, fingers crossed!

Are the BTLE and WiFi the only changes?<p>Still same CPU and RAM as the 2?

Video and images of the Raspberry Pi available here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7yXIC1UVKx0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7yXIC1UVKx0</a>

The Raspberry Pi website says they&#x27;re unlikely to have a new version in the next few years. Do they have FCC now? Maybe they just want to add on the radio modules.<p>From the FAQ: &gt; there are no immediate plans to release any more new models. A further new model may be released in 2-3 years, but this is not a firm schedule.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raspberrypi.org&#x2F;help&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;#generalFuture" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raspberrypi.org&#x2F;help&#x2F;faqs&#x2F;#generalFuture</a>

One step closer to accessibility for that don&#x27;t have all sorts of usb dongles laying around.

All we need is USB 3 and it would be perfect.

I&#x27;ll be picking one up. Onboard WiFi is a big deal.

But you can get almost any wireless ability and keep modern with whatever standard changes by simply using a usb stick.<p>They are super tiny now and barely stick out of the usb port.<p>Why hardwire wireless and outdate a board a few years later?<p>I think in 5 years we got g -&gt; n -&gt; 5ghz -&gt; ac and three bluetooth variants.<p>Now there is indoor lte and other stuff coming.

The FCC&#x27;s OET website is down at the moment, I&#x27;m guessing probably because of HN traffic. You can find the document cached here though:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fccid.io&#x2F;2ABCB-RPI32" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fccid.io&#x2F;2ABCB-RPI32</a>

having recently sourced near identical components, the combo wifi&#x2F;bt chip was around $1.40 in large volume. I&#x27;d wage in 40nm its &lt; 50c for BRCM to produce depending on the break they got. ant is &lt; 30c.<p>gotta assume this is connected via USB so it won&#x27;t be the lowest power - taking up the 2836&#x27;s sdcard slot would be 6 IO out of the GPIO map which would be over kill. so most likely this solution needs the onboard USB hub &#x2F; ethernet chip and its less likely they will bring connectivity to the cheaper versions.<p>pretty happy with this - saves 2 USB peripherals!

new 64 bit 1.2GHz cpu core confirmed?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;KRRd7OQ.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;KRRd7OQ.jpg</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;exuZy58.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;exuZy58.jpg</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnx-software.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;27&#x2F;raspberry-pi-3-model-b-board-adds-wifi-and-bluetooth-connectivity&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnx-software.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;02&#x2F;27&#x2F;raspberry-pi-3-model-...</a>

Please have GbE

Raspberry Pi&#x27;s 4th birthday coming up...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raspberrypi.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;four-years-of-pi&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.raspberrypi.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;four-years-of-pi&#x2F;</a><p>&quot;We are going to be doing some celebrating here at Pi Towers on Monday: February 29 is the 4th anniversary (or 1st, if you’re prissy about leap years) of the first sales of the Raspberry Pi 1.&quot;<p>Might be an auspicious date to launch a new version of hardware?

3 Generations of PCBs and still no RTC onboard...

Wow, this will give my chip a run for its money&#x2F;performance. My favorite thing about the chip is the onboard connectivity.

Excellent news. I wonder what the radio components will do to overall power consumption of the board. It should be considerably lower than a USB combo wifi &#x2F; bt device, anyhow, no?

I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s going to happen but it would be really neat if it supported Vulkan. I want to try to build an arcade machine out of cheap, underpowered hardware.

It also has BT Classic: section 7.5 of the test report states &quot;The EUT is a small, single board, computer with WiFi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE connectivity.&quot;

I must check that out. Reading the comments makes me want a retropie. The link is not working.

Can someone explain to me the room that the test photos are from? Is it sound proof? Why?

Anyone got a copy of the files? The FCC has pulled them down!

Please have a header for an on&#x2F;off button.

The link seems no workie. FCC server problems.

And here i was just about to order a 2...

The onboard Wifi and Bluetooth really makes the barrier of entry for IoT $5 (assuming the stick with the $5 mark)