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BCM2836 boards and specs

Broadcom · 2015 · 1 board

The quad-core SoC of the first Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, replacing the BCM2835’s single core with four Cortex-A7s.

Chip specifications

From the datasheet
ArchitectureArm Cortex-A7 (ARMv7)[1]
Cores4[1]
Clock900 MHz[1]
GPUVideoCore IV[1]

BCM2836 datasheet

Boards with the BCM2836

1 boards

Sources

1 sources
  1. Processors, Raspberry Pi documentation