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RP2040 successor will be RP235x, Arm M3 512k RAM, internal storage

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Some excerpts, if you are region-locked:

- We are also designing and developing a more advanced family of microcontrollers, RP235x, which we expect to launch in the second half of 2024, as well as chipsets for use in our SBCs and compute modules for release thereafter.

- We continue to invest in the design and development of new SBC products, including successors to Raspberry Pi 5 and Raspberry Pi Pico, that will incorporate future semiconductor products, including RP235x. We intend to develop new products that address customer requirements such as industrial temperature tolerance and onboard non-volatile storage. We also intend to continue working to extend the long-term availability of our older SBCs

This means on-board flash !

- We are designing and developing a family of microcontrollers, RP235x, which will serve as successors to RP2040, and which we expect to launch in second half of 2024. RP235x products are designed to operate at higher speeds, use less power and provide greater security than RP2040.

I hope they'll do on board crystal and less noisy adc v_ref.

Yeah I sure hope they will fix that ADC. I hope they will fix it on the RP2040 too. That would be great to use the RP2040 as peripherals for a more powerful chip (and load the code/pio through the swd ports so you don't need flash for each of them).

I really hope they are going to release something in a QFP package. QFN is significantly harder to solder for hobbyists.

This will likely not happen, this chip is made to be integrated and there are many advantages to QFN; including the ability to make much smaller boards. See: https://includemicro.com/tiny-rp2040/ The foundation has made a lot of work to reduce board sizes as they are major contributors to water waste in a project (they also are the majority of the weight).

This is from their IPO documents (RP235x released second half of 2024) and extrapolating from the datasheet of the RP2040 explaining how their numbering works.

Not viewable in OZ. the IPO is regionlocked apparently

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