Its fair to say Raspberry Pi, the super-affordable ARM GNU\/Linux computer, has been a massive success. Originally envisaged as a way to get kids coding again as they did in the 1980s and 1990s, the device has found a massive fan base outside of the education system, and has been selling in impressive quantities since its launch in 2012. <\/p>\n
The British success story sold more than a million units in its first year, but since then the pace has picked up, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation has just tweeted some staggering news -- it has now sold more than 5 million Raspberry Pis worldwide. <\/p>\n
Thats impressive on its own, but its worth pointing out, as a follow-up tweet does, that means that the Raspberry Pi Foundation is now the biggest selling UK computer manufacturer ever -- dwarfing iconic British brands like Sinclair Research -- and with the launch of the new Raspberry Pi 2 that growth is unlikely to show any signs of abating. <\/p>\n
In fact, theres a good chance a large portion of the existing Pi owners will be upgrading to the new model (as my colleague Brian Fagioli did). Few people will quibble over spending $35 to get a new Pi thats six times faster than the original, especially as it will be able to run Windows 10. <\/p>\n
Perhaps most impressively, the majority of the sales have occurred in the past year, as the company only hit the two million milestone in November 2013. <\/p>\n
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