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Today the latest sibling in the slowly expanding Raspberry Pi family was launched. The brandnew Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ brings the latest features and capabilities to a more compact form factor at a lower price.

The world's largest neuromorphic supercomputer designed to process in a manner similar to natural brain function has finally gone live...

RISC OS, the original OS for ARM processors is now available as a fully Open Source operating system (OS), via the Apache 2.0 licence under the continued stewardship of RISC OS Open Ltd. A high performance, low footprint OS, incorporating the world-renowned "BBC BASIC" provides a modern desktop interface coupled with easy access to programming, hardware and connectivity. RISC OS was one of the first operating systems to support the massively successful Raspberry Pi, for which it remains an ideal companion. Now truly Open, RISC OS make an ideal choice for royalty-free ARM-based projects.

congatec – a leading vendor of standardized and customized embedded computer boards and modules – introduces a brand new price-breaking Computer-on-Module for the entry-level of high-end embedded computing based on Intel’s® latest Core™ i3-8100H processor platform.

After a little delay the Raspberry Pi Foundation released the Power over Ethernet HAT for the Raspberry Pi 3B+ model. This can provide up to 2.5 A at 5 V to the system. To see what it is good for, we take it out of the box for a short review.

congatec announces the conga-SMX8, the company’s first SMARC 2.0 Computer-on-Module based on the 64-bit NXP i.MX8 multi-core ARM processor family.

The 4th generation of miniature fanless PCs from Compulab and the folk behind Linux Mint is... (drumroll) MintBox Mini 2 (MBM2)! Processing power comes from a quad-core Apollo Lake Celeron J3455, and MBM2 is supplied with the Mint 19 ‘Tara’ Cinnamon installed.

Mankind is producing so much data that storing it all is becoming more difficult every day. It is expected that by 2020 about 40 zettabytes of data will be generated per year (1 ZB = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes); in 2025, according to Seagate, 163 ZB of data has to be stored. That is an awful lot of thumb drives...

In his article Automation Meets IT with CDP Studio, Odd Gilinsky of CDP Technologies provides an easy introduction to building fast, distributed control systems on industrial computers. The article was previously published in Elektor Business Edition issue 2/2018, and is now offered as a free download to all Elektor e-zine readers.

It was back in June 2009 that Apple proudly introduced their latest iPhone 3GS to the market. Needless to say things have moved on since then but oddly enough in South Korea this exact model is now being offered for sale in brand new condition with its original packaging (and battery)...