The Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces Five Dollar Computer

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the release of its newest Raspberry Pi computer—the Pi Zero.

The Pi Zero is smaller and cheaper than ever, coming in at 65mm x 30mm x 5mm, and priced at just $5.

As the Raspberry Pi Foundation notes in a post on the company's website, owning a programmable computer is still a luxury. "Of all the things we do at Raspberry Pi," writes Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton, "driving down the cost of computer hardware remains one of the most important."

Pi Zero is equipped with a Broadcom BCM2835 application processor with a 1GHz ARM11 core—which should be noted, is "40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1"—, 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM, a micro-SC card slot, mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output, micro-USB sockets for data and power, and an unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header—the same pinout as the Model A+/B+/2B.

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