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Pi 5 confirmed and the Pico’s name

Eben Upton confirms the Pi 5, another Pico and what the model number actually means.

During an Elektor livestream Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben x16KB. The final digit, 0 refers to a lack of flash storage. Upton imagined another chip to illustrate the convention using a quad-core 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.

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