You partly have Eric Schmidt to thank for the new $5 Raspberry Pi

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http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/5c7b7548394b4467c3c0b2e8fca69e5a/203049438/raspberrypi.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/28/raspberry-pi-eric-schmidt/)While many of you were supposed to be eating turkey on Thursday, you were instead geeking out over Raspberry PI's (http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/17/raspberry-pi-sells-5-million-computers/) newest computer, the Zero (http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/26/raspberry-pi-zero/): a pint-sized module that costs just $5. But according to a new interview, that $5 computer was originally supposed to cost around $60 -- and you have partly have Google's Eric Schmidt to thank for that reduced price. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/11/26/raspberry-pi-rolls-out-5-computer/), Raspberry Pi Foundation founder Eben Upton admitted that the follow-up to the original $35 Pi (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/28/how-to-set-up-your-raspberry-pi-to-play-atari-2600-games/) was originally going to be a more powerful model, whose higher-performing internals would have put the price somewhere between $50 and $60.

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