RPi with 512mb Memory?

Great find! 

A 512MB model is consistent with the 31 July announcement

that Android 4.0 is being ported.  It seems all the recently

announced ARM devices have at least 512MB, and Eben's

recent interest in benchmarking against these devices indicates

he is paying attention to what the competition is doing.

There seems to be a recent pattern where RPF is paying attention

to issues that previously they said were inconsistent with their

educational mission, such as MPEG-2 decode, polyfuses,

and now 512MB ram.

Thanks guys!

Anyone know of other changes in this upgrade?

we don't know anything for sure, but apparently the ram can be upgraded

to 512MB simply by replacing the 256MB PoP ram chip with a 512MB chip.

So no board redesign is needed.

There have been some hints of board redesign, such as to align the USB

connectors, to move the capacitor that tends to fall off, to achieve

residential FCC/CE compliance, and to fix the 1.8v power issue.

But any such redesign would presumably work with either 256MB or

512MB memory.

I don't know whether 512MB is the maximum that the SoC can support,

or how difficult it might be to modify the SoC to support more ram.

A lot of the competing ARM devices appear not to use PoP ram.

Instead, they use DDR3 ram, typically two 256MB chips, for a total

of 512MB. 

The RasPi forum has just twigged to the 512MB version: see this thread.  On 31 August jamesh said that 512MB is the limit for the current board.  He didn't give away any RasPi Foundation plans.

It may be that the Ohmless F1+F2 and 512MB are the only changes.  I expect these can be done without recertifying.  Any significant board change like moving connectors generally requires recertification, which is painful and expensive.  It's also a pain to deal with multiple board versions, so if most people are able to survive "as is" there's a lot of incentive to wait on major changes.

Just read the above.

Doesn't say much about the new model.  Maybe this is meant to be a sceret.

Keep updates coming though here.

The 512mb Raspberry Pi is still showing on the Element14 site.

Is this still antiapation of the Raspberry Pi 512mb model B or is this just another error?  I think we could see a $50 Raspberry Pi on the shelves very soon, even before the end of November due to the advertsing that is taking place.

Also, what company advertises something when it doesn't exist.   I think they must be making enough stock so that we don't end up with a back-log - like the Model B rev 1.0 (as they call it now).

Bring on the Model B 512!

take a look at the shipping date here:

http://www.lemona.lt/index.php?page=search&q=2191863

I'd not be surprised based on previous precedent in regards to the secret veil MO from RPF, that sooner or later we'll find out that somebody got a board with 512MB.

-J

coder27 wrote:

 

take a look at the shipping date here:

 

http://www.lemona.lt/index.php?page=search&q=2191863

The shipping date is in 4 days!!!!  How reliable is this website?  and how come it says from time of order to date shipped is 3 days?

Lets put the call out to see if anyone has a Raspberry Pi with 512Mb RAM.

jamodio wrote:

 

I'd not be surprised based on previous precedent in regards to the secret veil MO from RPF, that sooner or later we'll find out that somebody got a board with 512MB.

 

 

-J

What's MO?

try googling for "genius-level garbage"

coder27 wrote:

 

try googling for "genius-level garbage"

I did, and your post here at Element14 was on the first page

Very amusing google, but we should try to be nice and provide directly useful replies such as a link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_operandi.

I first saw M.O. in a Batman comic book, where it was expanded into "method of operation".

coder27 wrote:

 

try googling for "genius-level garbage"

I did, and your post here at Element14 was on the first page

Very amusing google, but we should try to be nice and provide directly useful replies such as a link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_operandi.

I first saw M.O. in a Batman comic book, where it was expanded into "method of operation".

Thanks for the reply on MO.  Now I know what it is.

The shipping date is in 4 days!!!! How reliable is this website? and how come it says from time of order to date shipped is 3 days?

 

Lets put the call out to see if anyone has a Raspberry Pi with 512Mb RAM

.This was above.

Last time I checked it was still on their site.

When you try to order one it doesn't work with an erratic message that there isn't a price available.

But indeed, I can see Liz being amused by the discovery of people having a 512MB Pi which aren't supposed to be in the wild...

Not sure why they keep it on their site. Maybe they use it as a tracking to figure out how much interest there is.

can see Liz being amused by the discovery of people having a 512MB Pi which aren't supposed to be in the wild...

Can you link me to the page where someone has said they have one?

And Maybe they could just be too lazy to take it down / off thier website know that they will eventually have to put it up again in maybe a month, 3 months, etc.