1 April 2040, Cambridge, UK. Today Raspberry Pi, Ltd (RPL) has launched the Raspberry Pi 10 (Pi10). The new Pi uses an SoC designated BCM2720, designed by their wholly owned subsidiary, Broadcom, plus an RPL designed peripheral controller, the RP6. Both chips are produced at a TSMC fab located in the UK and expressly dedicated to making chips for Raspberry Pis. Pi10 boards will be assembled at various Sony facilities around the world, some of them dedicated to solely producing Pis.
The Pi10 SoC has 8 ARM Cortex cores plus 4 RISC V cores. All cores can run at 6GHz. Two SKUs have been released, one with 64GB of LPDDR7X DRAM and the other with 128GB. At least two major DRAM suppliers have expressed interest in developing a 2Tb (256GB) DRAM package compatible with the new Pi.
The RP6 has 8 processor cores, designated Peripheral Processors (PP s) to distinguish them from the SoC cores, called CP s. The RP6 has 4GB of static RAM on chip and can run at 2.4 GHz.
Given the capabilities of the RP6 PP s, RPL announced a beta software project to run the Linux kernel on PP0, leaving the full capacity of the CP s for applications code.
The Pi10 comes with 2 USB 3.2 and 2 USB 5.0 ports, with all four using USB-C connectors. There is a 25Gb/s optical Ethernet connector. Since not everyone has optical Ethernet yet, an optical/UTP bridge adapter was also released. The UTP side can run up to 10Gb/s. The PMIC on the Pi10 is capable of acting on an optical “wake on LAN” signal.
There are two 8-lane CSI/DSI connectors. These will support the recently released 12 inch 3x (2880x1620) touchscreen as well as the RPL 50 MP high frame rate camera.
The PCIe connector has 4 lanes of PCIe ver 7. The existing M.2 HAT+ adapter for the Pi9 will work with the new board and there will be a faster adapter board released later this year. The existing 4TB, 8TB and 12TB 2242 NVMe RPL branded SSDs will work with both of these versions of the M.2 HAT+.
The Pi10 has a block of 4 vertically mounted micro-HDMI ports, each port can connect to a 16x display. This is an upgrade from the 3 micro-HDMI ports on the Pi9, which had one at 16x and the other two at 8x. Using all four HDMI ports, plus the two 8-lane CSI/DSI connectors, the Pi10 can handle up to 6 monitors at a time.
The RP6 allows any GPIO pin to be used for any function. Those functions now include DAC and ADC as well as the PIO capabilities from earlier RP x peripheral controllers.
New with the Pi10 are a pair of FFC connectors next to the 40-pin GPIO block that each provide 20 additional GPIOs. There is a HAT that they can be connected to that adds two 24-pin blocks, exposing the 20 GPIOs on 0.1” centers, plus 1 5V, 1 3.3v, and 2 GND pins each.
RpiOS (Debian) 18 is available at launch. Microsoft has announced that they will release “Windows ARM for Linux” that will run as a guest system on RpiOS some time next quarter. Privately, Microsoft has admitted that the Pi ecosystem is to big for them to ignore and too well integrated and supported to attempt to take over.
In related news, there are indications that RPL is working on a 24” 4x portable monitor as an upgrade path from the 15.6” FHD and 22” 3x portable monitors.
The Pi10 SoC has 8 ARM Cortex cores plus 4 RISC V cores. All cores can run at 6GHz. Two SKUs have been released, one with 64GB of LPDDR7X DRAM and the other with 128GB. At least two major DRAM suppliers have expressed interest in developing a 2Tb (256GB) DRAM package compatible with the new Pi.
The RP6 has 8 processor cores, designated Peripheral Processors (PP s) to distinguish them from the SoC cores, called CP s. The RP6 has 4GB of static RAM on chip and can run at 2.4 GHz.
Given the capabilities of the RP6 PP s, RPL announced a beta software project to run the Linux kernel on PP0, leaving the full capacity of the CP s for applications code.
The Pi10 comes with 2 USB 3.2 and 2 USB 5.0 ports, with all four using USB-C connectors. There is a 25Gb/s optical Ethernet connector. Since not everyone has optical Ethernet yet, an optical/UTP bridge adapter was also released. The UTP side can run up to 10Gb/s. The PMIC on the Pi10 is capable of acting on an optical “wake on LAN” signal.
There are two 8-lane CSI/DSI connectors. These will support the recently released 12 inch 3x (2880x1620) touchscreen as well as the RPL 50 MP high frame rate camera.
The PCIe connector has 4 lanes of PCIe ver 7. The existing M.2 HAT+ adapter for the Pi9 will work with the new board and there will be a faster adapter board released later this year. The existing 4TB, 8TB and 12TB 2242 NVMe RPL branded SSDs will work with both of these versions of the M.2 HAT+.
The Pi10 has a block of 4 vertically mounted micro-HDMI ports, each port can connect to a 16x display. This is an upgrade from the 3 micro-HDMI ports on the Pi9, which had one at 16x and the other two at 8x. Using all four HDMI ports, plus the two 8-lane CSI/DSI connectors, the Pi10 can handle up to 6 monitors at a time.
The RP6 allows any GPIO pin to be used for any function. Those functions now include DAC and ADC as well as the PIO capabilities from earlier RP x peripheral controllers.
New with the Pi10 are a pair of FFC connectors next to the 40-pin GPIO block that each provide 20 additional GPIOs. There is a HAT that they can be connected to that adds two 24-pin blocks, exposing the 20 GPIOs on 0.1” centers, plus 1 5V, 1 3.3v, and 2 GND pins each.
RpiOS (Debian) 18 is available at launch. Microsoft has announced that they will release “Windows ARM for Linux” that will run as a guest system on RpiOS some time next quarter. Privately, Microsoft has admitted that the Pi ecosystem is to big for them to ignore and too well integrated and supported to attempt to take over.
In related news, there are indications that RPL is working on a 24” 4x portable monitor as an upgrade path from the 15.6” FHD and 22” 3x portable monitors.
Statistics: Posted by W. H. Heydt — Tue Apr 01, 2025 4:33 am