It's also launching alongside a beta version of a new 64-bit version of the Raspberry Pi OS, another first for Raspberry Pi, which has been limited to 32-bit since 2011.

To take full advantage of this extra memory, a 64-bit version of the foundation's official operating system, Raspbian, has been released in early beta, though it's now called Raspberry Pi OS.

In order to map all 8GB of RAM into the address space of a single process, a 64-bit operating system is needed. As such, the Raspberry Pi Foundation also announced the release of an early beta of ...

Today's Raspberry Pi 4 lineup is far more capable, featuring a 64-bit Broadcom chip that runs at 1.5GHz and RAM of 2GB, 4GB and as of last week 8GB.

For now, 8GB is as high as it goes… but that was still enough to prompt the Raspberry Pi Foundation to release a new 64-bit version of its Linux-based operating system for Raspberry Pi computers.

Moving to 64-bit The Raspberry Pi Foundation has doubled the maximum amount of RAM available in the Raspberry Pi 4 to 8GB with a new device it's selling for $75.  To take advantage of the ...

Raspberry Pi has upgraded its flagship board, with the Raspberry Pi 4 now coming in an 8GB RAM flavor for those who need more memory.

To take full advantage of the increased amounts of RAM, the foundation is also releasing a 64-bit version of its Raspbian operating system in early beta, renamed to Raspberry Pi OS.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has made a 64-bit version of its operating system available. It won't run on all Raspberry Pi hardware but it should on some of the more modern hardware.

On the software front, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has started working on a 64-bit version of Raspbian, the operating system designed to run on a Raspberry Pi.