元器件交易网讯 4月8日消息，据外媒报道，树莓派将推出供工业使用的更小版本，批量售价在30美元左右（约合186元人民币）。

　　计划推出的新品基于目前树莓派的设计，体积更小并加入SODIMM插槽。这种设计通常用在定制小型电脑的主板上，因此新款树莓派更像是微型电脑。

　　售价方面，如若100枚为一批购买价格将在30美元左右。

　　“我们希望帮助那些生产成百上千内嵌树莓派产品的、希望树莓派体积更小的工业及嵌入式用户，”树莓派的创始人在邮件中写道。

　　爱特梅尔（Atmel）及飞思卡尔（Freescale）也出售类似产品但价格昂贵，英特尔的爱迪生（Edison）、北京君正基于MIPS的微型电脑及价格为45美元的德州仪器BeagleBone Black则是树莓派的竞争对手。（元器件交易网毛毛  摘译）

　　以下为原文：

　　Raspberry Pi plans even tinier, modular $30micro-computer for industrial use

　　Raspberry Pi—popular for its $25 PC—planslater this year to ship new hardware in the form of a smaller board that plugsinto a custom motherboard slot, which could appeal to a new audience of makers,enthusiasts and enterprise users.

　　The new computer has similar circuitry fromthe current Raspberry Pi design, which is an uncased board with key componentson it. The smaller Raspberry Pi board can be plugged into SODIMM slots, whichare typically found in small computers with custom motherboards. The new Piwill be more like a mini-computer inside a computer.

　　“The goal is to support industrial and embedded users of the Pi whoare producing hundreds or thousands of products which embed the Pi and wouldprefer a smaller form factor,” said Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton in anemail.

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　　The Raspberry Pi computers have sold in themillions and have been used for applications such as media streaming, robotics,education and programming. At $25 or $35, many just have the computer lyingaround home for generic use. The Pi has also spawned the development ofmonitors, cameras, cases and also Arduino expansion boards, with many startingoff as Kickstarter projects and getting fully funded.

　　But the new Raspberry Pi coming later thisyear is different. People who want to use it will need to produce a custommotherboard to connect the pins up appropriately, Upton said, adding that hehopes for a price of around $30 in batches of 100.

　　“It’s not designed to plug into either an SDRAM or PCI-Express bus—itjust uses the JEDEC SODIMM form factor because SODIMM sockets are cheap,commodity parts which can carry high-speed signals reliably,” Upton said.

　　The current Pi computer could be hard toplug directly into computers, but SODIMM modules are typically smaller, don’tneed a power outlet, and are easier to plug into connectors. This could open upnew possibilities of using the board in industrial products, consumerelectronics and sensor devices. Such boards could also be used in robots andother products in the so-called Internet of things category, which is emergingfast.

　　Companies like Atmel and Freescale alsosell modules that plug into 200-pin SODIMM connectors. The boards areexpensive, but have similar low-power ARM processors—which function more like microcontrollerunits (MCUs)—and are used for prototyping and testing of applications.

　　Raspberry Pi has changed the landscape ofsystem-on-board computers. A mini-computer called Edison, which is slightlylarger than an SD card, is being developed by Intel, while Chinese companyIngenic is selling a computer that size of an SD card based on the MIPSprocessor. Texas Instruments sells the $45 BeagleBone Black, which isconsidered closest competition to Raspberry Pi.