News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development
by rbanffy on 5/26/2026, 8:02:52 AM
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/news-about-raspberry-pi-6-and-microcontroller-development/
Comments
by: dirtikiti
I have bought an rpi at every generation. And I still have yet to find an actual use for them.<p>Everything they do from a compute perspective is just better with a mini pc or old laptop with a mobile spec chip.<p>Everything they do from a programmability perspective is just better with a microcontroller specific to the task.<p>I just don't see the actual market position for these things. They were supposed to be a cheap board, but you can't actually buy them cheaply because the vendors upcharge so much.
5/28/2026, 6:40:05 PM
by: ThrowawayR2
> "<i>...: It sounds like the key feature will be 'more': a faster CPU and faster IO, rather than new features.</i>"<p>Raspberry Pi Holdings is a embedded systems manufacturer for pity's sake; we don't need more from them, we need less. [EDIT] A faster Raspberry Pi 6 is encroaching on the territory of the Intel N150 and its successors and mainstream Linux distributions and that is a battle they would lose in terms of price and performance.<p>Give us a Raspberry Pi Zero 3W with proper sleep states to reduce sleep power consumption, lower idle power while awake, and 1 GB of RAM even if it doubles the price.
5/26/2026, 4:04:05 PM
by: porphyra
The 8GB Pi 5, at $170 [1], is encroaching on Jetson Orin Nano Super's $240 price point [2]. But the Jetson has a faster CPU (newer a78ae cores rather than a76) and, obviously, a whole-ass GPU.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.microcenter.com/product/673711/raspberry-pi-5" rel="nofollow">https://www.microcenter.com/product/673711/raspberry-pi-5</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.microcenter.com/product/691058/nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-super-developer-kit" rel="nofollow">https://www.microcenter.com/product/691058/nvidia-jetson-ori...</a>
5/28/2026, 6:32:57 PM
by: bradfa
Would love to see actual security focused hardware/software features, like full OP-TEE, fTPM (or a more ideally a real physical TPM), and similar. For example, so that the OTP isn't the only way to store a disk encryption unlock key.<p>The existing secure boot mechanisms aren't bad, but allowing for more than one public key hash in OTP would be nice, too.<p>These kinds of things are expected to be on modern embedded SOCs and SOMs now.
5/28/2026, 6:19:33 PM
by: peteforde
Pi's refusal to drop a USB-C on Pico due to cost increases is a terrible call IMO.<p>I seriously cannot fathom being someone doing development who wouldn't pay $0.50 extra to purge the last micro USB from their desktop.
5/28/2026, 6:17:20 PM
by: Zenst
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5/28/2026, 6:28:30 PM