The Raspberry Pi is a progression of credit card–sized single-board PCs created in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the expectation of advancing the educating of fundamental software engineering in schools and creating countries.[5][6][7]

The first Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi 2 are fabricated in a few board setups through authorized assembling concurrences with Newark element14 (Premier Farnell), RS Components and Egoman. These organizations offer the Raspberry Pi online.[8] Egoman produces a rendition for dissemination singularly in Taiwan, which can be recognized from different Pis by their red shading and absence of FCC/CE stamps. The equipment is the same over all producers.

The first Raspberry Pi depends on the Broadcom BCM2835 framework on a chip (SoC),[2] which incorporates an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU,[9] and was initially sent with 256 megabytes of RAM, later updated (models B and B+) to 512 MB.[3][10] The framework has Secure Digital (SD) (models An and B) or MicroSD (models A+ and B+) attachments for boot media and diligent storage.[11]

In 2014, the Raspberry Pi Foundation dispatched the Compute Module, which bundles a BCM2835 with 512 MB RAM and an eMMC glimmer chip into a module for use as a piece of installed systems.[12]

The Foundation gives Debian and Arch Linux ARM dispersions for download.[13] Tools are accessible for Python as the fundamental programming dialect, with backing for BBC BASIC[14] (through the RISC OS picture or the Brandy Basic clone for Linux),[15] C, C++, Java,[16] Perl, Ruby,[17] and Squeak Smalltalk.

Starting 8 June 2015, around five to six million Raspberry Pis have been sold.[18][19] While as of now the quickest offering British PC, it has additionally delivered the second biggest number of units behind the Amstrad PCW, the "PC Word-processor", which sold eight million.

In right on time February 2015, the cutting edge Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 2, was released.[20] The new PC load up is at first accessible just in one design (model B) and components a Broadcom BCM2836 SoC, with a quad-center ARM Cortex-A7 CPU and a VideoCore IV double center GPU; 1 GB of RAM with remaining particulars being like those of the past era model B+. The Raspberry Pi 2 holds the same US$35 value purpose of the model B,[21] with the US$20 model A+ staying discounte