text: New $25 module with reduced features provides even lower cost option with lower power consumption
  OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - Feb. 4, 2013) - RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the world's leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, has announced it will be shipping the new Model A version of Raspberry Pi, the low-cost, credit card-sized computer board designed to boost the uptake of programming among young people and enthusiasts worldwide. RS has also signed a new global distribution agreement with The Raspberry Pi Foundation to sell Raspberry Pis around the world.
  "The arrival of the Model A board is great news for anyone wishing to develop low-power applications with their Raspberry Pi," said Glenn Jarrett, Global Head of Product Marketing at RS. "The $25 price point makes it even more attractive to system integrators, and increases accessibility for those working within a restricted budget, such as in education."
  Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation added, "We're really pleased to finally be able to offer the Model A board. The lower power consumption and reduced height make it a great fit for so many of the projects that people are building with their Pis; and we're excited to be able to make access to computing available at the $25 price we have been aiming at since we incorporated The Raspberry Pi Foundation as a charity. The Model A Raspberry Pis will be shipping from our distributors very soon, and customers will have them in their hands from February onwards. This is the realisation of our long-standing ambition to provide the world with a $25 computer."