Raspberry Pi 500 makes first appearance as Raspberry Pi 400 successor with Broadcom BCM 2712 SoC

The Raspberry Pi 400 has been around for a while at this point. For context, the Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced the device that it described as 'a computer in a keyboard' in late 2020. Since then, the Foundation has released various other products, including the Raspberry Pi 5 (curr. $58.39 on Amazon).

In fact, such a long time has passed since the appearance of the Raspberry Pi 400 that a DIYer created their own equivalent over the summer. However, it seems that the Foundation has been or still is developing a direct successor called the Raspberry Pi 500 (RPi 500). As various sources note, the RPi 500 has only been spotted on the GitHub repository of Raspberry Pi OS' arm64 version.

Nonetheless, it would appear that the RPi 500 relies upon the same Broadcom BCM 2712 that the Foundation employs inside the Raspberry Pi 5. Unfortunately, other specifics remain unknown for now, including whether the RPi 500 would feature an exposed PCIe connection. Presumably, the RPi 500 would match its predecessor's I/O and 4 GB of RAM configuration, though.