The most recent flagship product of the Raspberry Pi circuit board, which is popular among both hobby developers and industry players, was the Raspberry Pi 5 presented last fall, and since then mainly accessories have arrived in the family. On Wednesday, the organization also announced the update of the line intended for the industrial environment, the Compute Module 5, which is essentially an industrial and more compact version of the Pi 5, specifically designed for building computing clusters and low-cost servers. The previous version of the edition intended for embedded systems, CM4, has been on the market for four years, one year after the main product, and the timing is similar in the current series.
The Compute Module 5 (CM5) is mechanically almost identical to the 4 edition, but significantly faster thanks to the same chip used in the Pi 5. On the CM5, we find the hardware known from the big brother, including the 2.4 GHz, quad-core, 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, together with a VideoCore VII GPU. The graphics accelerator can handle up to two 4K displays via HDMI, hardware-accelerates the decoding of HEVC videos, and supports OpenGL ES 3.1 and Vulkan 1.3.
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In accordance with the fifth generation main product, it has the usual 30-pin GPIO connector and supports the direct connection of PCI Express peripherals. There is also room on board for Bluetooth 5.0 and Wi-Fi supporting 802.11ac standards.
The chip can be selected with 2/4/8 GB SDRAM memory and 16/32/64 GB MLC eMMC integrated storage, but the version with 16 GB SDRAM memory will also be available next year, as promised. The starting price of the hardware this time was slightly higher than in the case of the predecessors, 45 dollars net, which in Europe will be around 55 euros.
Many companies use Raspberry Pi computing modules in commercial products, in 2023 the hobbyist and education segment accounted for 28% of the chips sold, while the industrial and embedded segment accounted for 72% of sales.
Source: www.hwsw.hu
