Raspbertty Pi has release a new board: Pico 2. The Pico 2 has Raspberry Pi’s latest silicon, the RP2350. It is available now for $5.
Raspberry Pi Pico 2: a RISC-V bet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXF_lVwA8A4
The RP2350 is Raspberry Pi’s second-generation in-house microcontroller design. The Raspberry Pi RP2350 is a major upgrade over the earlier Raspberry Pi RP2040, boasting newer Arm Cortex-M33 cores running at a faster 150MHz, almost twice the static RAM (SRAM) plus support for external pseudo-static RAM (PSRAM), an additional programmable input/output (PIO) block, and more — but it also brings with it an architectural complexity: the presence of two RISC-V cores, based on the free and open source Hazard3 design, which can be chosen in place of the Arm cores or even split with one Arm and one RISC-V core running simultaneously.
New microcontroller boasts a choice of 150MHz Arm Cortex-M33 or RISC-V Hazard3 cores, a dedicated display peripheral, 520kB SRAM, and more. RP2350 is built using quad-core dual-architecture with two ARM and two RISC-V cores, but only two of those four cores can run at the same time. There is 520 Kb of SRAM memory on the chip and the new features include Arm TrustZone, 8 Kb OTP memory and Secure Boot support. The previous PR2040 had two Arm Cortex-M0+ cores with a maximum clock frequency of 133 MHz and 264 KB of SRAM memory. It is possible to integrate extra two megabytes of Flash to the same chip package.
For programming Raspberry Pi RP2350′shave Day-One Rust Support. Pallant says, “this is the first ever microcontroller launch with Rust support out-of-the-box.” Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board serves as a quick-start development platform.
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Raspberry Pi RP2350
https://www.hackster.io/news/jonathan-pallant-details-the-deeply-impressive-raspberry-pi-rp2350-s-day-one-rust-support-057ea35ce84e
Raspberry Pi Unveils the Pico 2, Powered by the Dual-Architecture Quad-Core RP2350
https://www.hackster.io/news/raspberry-pi-unveils-the-pico-2-powered-by-the-dual-architecture-quad-core-rp2350-605253ab1235
Raspberry Pi Pico 2:n uudesta RP2350:stä löytyy sekä Arm- että RISC-V-ytimiä
https://www.io-tech.fi/uutinen/raspberry-pi-pico-2n-uudesta-rp2350sta-loytyy-seka-arm-etta-risc-v-ytimia/
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Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-pico-2-w-review
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://zaitronics.com.au/blogs/guides/raspberry-pi-pico-2-w-vs-original-pico-w-comprehensive-guide
Tomi Engdahl says:
BANDIT PC32 standalone ColorForth keyboard computer is powered by the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller
BANDIT PC32 is a Raspberry Pi RP2350-powered keyboard computer that runs a graphically-oriented version of the ColorForth programming environment.
https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/20/bandit-pc32-standalone-colorforth-keyboard-computer-is-powered-by-the-raspberry-pi-rp2350-microcontroller/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Adafruit’s Fruit Jam is a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 powered, credit card sized computer
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By Ash HillContributions from Les Pounder published February 5, 2025
Adafruit has concocted an RP2350B flavored PCB they plan to call Fruit Jam.
https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/adafruits-fruit-jam-is-a-raspberry-pi-pico-2-powered-credit-card-sized-computer
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/02/03/high-speed-data-acquisition-over-hdmi-with-a-pico-2/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Wolfgang Friedrich’s P42 Pico2 M.2 Pops a Raspberry Pi RP2350A on an M.2 Card
If your laptop or single-board computer has an M.2 slot doing nothing, why not fill it with a flexible microcontroller?
https://www.hackster.io/news/wolfgang-friedrich-s-p42-pico2-m-2-pops-a-raspberry-pi-rp2350a-on-an-m-2-card-1bb025801000?fbclid=IwY2xjawJXsUNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHaVib8olvhth-MI7LfrIEf97fleDNn97soGSGGBAcQhLEypHBRt8u4aCoA_aem__RRmh5S25EP5ai5o5CXm5Q
Electronics engineer Wolfgang Friedrich has opened pre-orders for a compact M.2 form factor module designed to add a Raspberry Pi RP2350A microcontroller to single-board computers and other embedded systems: the P42 Pico2 M.2.
“A R[aspberry] Pi Pico RP2350A microcontroller board in M.2 3024 size form factor with A and E key[ing],” Friedrich explains of the P42 Pico2 M.2 board. “The M.2 interface has USB, UART, I2C, and control IO [Input/Output] connectivity. A microcontroller could give any host computer flexible and excellent real-time IO and data processing capabilities. The R[aspberry] Pi Pico with its programmable PIO [Programmable Input/Output] interface has excellent timing resolution.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/06/command-and-conquer-ported-to-the-pi-pico-2/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Overclocking Raspberry Pi Pico 2
https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/overclocking-the-pico-2
How fast can RP2350 really go? Mike starts his Christmas holidays with a deep dive into Pico 2 overclocking, with the assistance of a seasonally appropriate amount of dry ice ❄️
A couple of years ago Raspberry Pi posted about overclocking a regular Pico to a ridiculous degree – achieving a 1 GHz overclock and (briefly) boosting the performance of the Pico above the original Pi.
Picos overclock very well, and the original Raspberry Pi Pico
will normally run at over 400MHz if given a 1.3V core voltage. On the RP2040 that is as far as you can easily go because the on-board voltage regulator is limited to supplying a maximum of 1.3V.
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Raspberry Pi Pico2 with Arduino IDE Linux install
http://lucstechblog.blogspot.com/2024/09/raspberry-pi-pico2-with-arduino-ide.html
Just 2 weeks ago on August 23 I wrote about the new Raspberry Pi Pico2 that just arrived. For those in the blind: the Raspberry Pi Pico2 is the successor of the Pico, the first micro controller of the Raspberry Pi company. It is a serious challenger for the Arduino boards as it is dead-cheap and widely available. The advantages are obvious: more speed, more memory and more storage and the same footprint.
At the time I wrote that the only languages available where MicroPython / CircuitPython and the Raspberry Pico SDK. No Arduino IDE at that time. You can read that story here:
http://lucstechblog.blogspot.com/2024/08/first-look-at-raspberry-pi-pico2.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.hackster.io/news/love-elevators-you-can-simulate-an-elevator-control-system-with-a-raspberry-pi-ec605fd824c0
Tomi Engdahl says:
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Review: The RP2350 goes wireless
The RP2350 finally gets Wi-Fi!
https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-pico-2-w-review
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RISC-V on Raspberry Pi Pico 2
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/risc-v-on-raspberry-pi-pico-2/
The Hazard 3 RISC-V cores on the RP2350 were designed by Raspberry Pi’s own Luke Wren in his spare time – and as they’re open source, you can download the design files yourself and start poking around in the very same chip that will eventually be in use on millions of units out in the wild. As Eben Upton puts it: “In adding Hazard3 to RP2350, we’re aiming to give software developers a chance to experiment with the RISC-V architecture in a stable, well-supported environment, and to popularise Hazard3 as a clean, open core, suitable for verbatim use in other devices, or as a basis for further development.” Luke’s reflections first appeared in issue 145 of The MagPi.