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The Raspberry Pi is manufactured through licensed manufacturing deals with Element 14/Premier Farnell and [[RS Components]]. Both of these companies sell the Raspberry Pi online.<ref>[http://www.raspberrypi.org/about about the Licensed manufacturing deal]</ref>
The Raspberry Pi has a [[Broadcom]] BCM2835 [[system on a chip]] (SoC),<ref name="Broadcom-BCM2835-Website"/> which includes an [[ARM11|ARM1176JZF-S]] {{nowrap|700 MHz}} processor (The firmware includes a number of "Turbo" modes so that the user can attempt overclocking, up-to 1 GHz, without affecting the warranty),<ref name="Turbo mode">{{cite web|title=Introducing turbo mode: up to 50% more performance for free|url=http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008|publisher=Raspberrypi.org|accessdate=20 September 2012}}</ref> [[VideoCore]] IV GPU,<ref name="grandmax brose 2012">{{cite news | url=http://www.grandmax.net/2012/01/broadcom-bcm2835-soc-has-powerful.html | title=Broadcom BCM2835 SoC has the most powerful mobile GPU in the world? | work=Grand MAX | date=30 January 2012 | accessdate=13 April 2012 | author=Brose, Moses}}</ref> and originally shipped with 256 megabytes of [[Random-access memory|RAM]], later upgraded to 512MB.<ref name=512MB>{{cite web|url=http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2180 |title=Model B now ships with 512MB of RAM |publisher=Raspberrypi.org |date= |accessdate=2012-10-15}}</ref> It does not include a built-in [[hard disk drive|hard disk]] or [[solid-state drive]], but uses an [[Secure Digital|SD card]] for booting and long-term storage.<ref name="VerifiedPeripheralList"/> The Foundation's goal is to offer two versions, priced at US$25 and US$35. The Foundation started accepting orders for the higher priced model B on 29 February 2012.<ref name= lawler>Richard Lawler, 29 February 2012, [http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/29/raspberry-pi-credit-card-sized-linux-pcs-are-on-sale-now-25-mo/ Raspberry Pi credit-card sized Linux PCs are on sale now, $25 Model A gets a RAM bump], Engadget</ref> and the lower cost model A on February 4,
The Foundation provides Debian and Arch Linux ARM [[Linux distribution|distributions]] for download.<ref name="raspberrypi downloads">{{cite web | url=http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads | title=Raspberry Pi downloads}}</ref> Also planned are tools for supporting [[Python (programming language)|Python]] as the main programming language,<ref name="raspberrypi faq eben proglang">{{cite web | url=http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs#comment-132 | quote=Leads, a power supply or SD cards are not included but can be purchased at the same time from Farnell and RS. You will be able to buy preloaded SD cards too. ... We’ll be using Fedora as our recommended distribution. It’s straightforward to replace the root partition on the SD card with another ARM Linux distribution if you want to use something else. The OS is stored on the SD card. | title=FAQs | date=26 July 2011 | accessdate=12 December 2011 | author=Upton, Eben}}</ref><ref name="raspberrypi faq liz python">{{cite web | url=http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs#comment-1632 | title=FAQs | publisher=Raspberry Pi | date=29 August 2011 | accessdate=12 December 2011 | author=Upton, Liz}}</ref> with support for [[BBC BASIC]],<ref name="edge david braben">{{cite news | url= http://www.next-gen.biz/features/david-braben-interview | title=David Braben on Raspberry Pi | work= [[Edge (magazine)|Edge]] | date=25 November 2011 | accessdate=8 December 2011}}</ref> (via the [[RISC OS]] image or the "Brandy Basic" clone for Linux),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jaguar.orpheusweb.co.uk/branpage.html |title=Brandy Basic |publisher=Jaguar.orpheusweb.co.uk |date=26 July 2005 |accessdate=6 May 2012}}</ref> [[C (programming language)|C]],<ref name="raspberrypi faq eben proglang" /> and [[Perl]].<ref name="raspberrypi faq eben proglang" />
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