Raspberry Pi has been sold 5 million times

The foundation behind the Raspberry Pi reports that more than five million copies of the small computer have now been sold. The minicomputer has thus become one of the best-selling British-made computers in three years’ time.

Delivery of the Raspberry Pi started in April 2012 and at that time 350,000 orders had already been received. After two years, the counter stood at 2.5 million and a year later it has risen to 5 million, the Raspberry Pi foundation said on Twitter. know.

“We believe this means we have gone from nothing to the UK’s best-selling computer manufacturer ever in less than three years,” thus the foundation. Incidentally, the British ZX Spectrum also sold more than 5 million copies in the early 1980s, but the exact number is unknown. It is only a matter of time before the Raspberry Pi will surpass this by far.

Raspberry Pi recently announced the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, which features a Broadcom BCM2836 soc with four ARMv7 Cortex-A7 cores and 1GB of memory.