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Raspberry Pi Holdings' unaudited H1 2026 results show revenue up 90% to $256.9m and adjusted EBITDA up 108% to $40.3m. The company credits LPDDR4 it bought in FY2025 for keeping boards available, while about 1m Pi Zero units sit on back order.
Read the story →Australia's Rapid Analysis has passed its Kickstarter goal for the Xerxes Pi 2026 (Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5) and Xerxes Nano (Jetson Orin Nano Super/Turing RK1) PoE carrier boards. Pledges start at AU$69 and every tier lists estimated delivery in Dec 2026.
Adafruit's CircuitPython 11.0.0-alpha.1, a pre-release from September 24, puts 11.0.0 in place of 10.4.0 as the next stable release. It adds hmac and hardwarekey modules and an RP2350 alarm module, and removes the broadcom, litex and renode ports. Stable remains 10.3.1.
Sixfab's AI HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5 pairs a 25 TOPS DEEPX DX-M1M NPU with 2 GB of LPDDR4x, listed from $90. Raspberry Pi's Oct 5 tests measured 2361 FPS on mobilenet_v2 and 4.64 tok/s on Qwen3-1.7B. A 13 TOPS $63 version is also listed, and the two companies give different availability dates.
TinyGo 0.43.0, released October 9, 2026, adds the ESP32-H2 and four new boards, I2S on nRF52xxx and ESP32xx, LEDC PWM on ESP32xx, nRF52840 USB mass storage, precise GC layouts on all platforms and a -trimpath flag for reproducible builds.
WeebLabs' GPL-3.0 DSPi firmware makes an RP2040 Pico or RP2350 Pico 2 a USB sound card with parametric EQ, crossovers up to 8th order and per-output delay; beta5, posted 17 October, reworks the S/PDIF receiver and adds 4-channel 24-bit USB input on RP2350.
Meta has released the mostly Apache 2.0 Muse Gadget SDK, which connects ESP32 and Linux devices to its Muse AI agent. Espressif says it is adding Matter controller support, but every gadget needs a Meta-issued SDK token, and 5,000 free ESP32-C5 Home Link adapters are going to US subscribers.
Raspberry Pi raised the 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 by $12.50 each on 1 October 2026, to $67.50 and $77.50, blaming steeply rising memory costs, while the 1GB boards and 2GB Compute Module 4 and 5 stay unchanged.
Raspberry Pi released a new Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac on 6 October 2026: a 64-bit-only Debian 13 'Trixie' live and installable image with the Control Centre, new dock, Wayland and the Raspberry Pi Connect client. It is the first x86 release since 2022, does not support Apple Silicon, and needs a full reinstall.
Raspberry Pi's $30 Smart Display Module, launched 29 September 2026, lets a Compute Module 5 (sold separately) plug into Intel SDM-compliant displays and projectors with no external cabling or power supply, aimed at fanless 24/7 digital signage.
Bitmerse's Romu, an open-hardware RP2354A board that fits inside a USB Type-A plug with MicroPython preloaded, launched on Crowd Supply on October 13, 2026. Pledges start at $40; the campaign was 22% funded on October 20 and gives an estimated ship date of April 26, 2027.
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