Raspberry Pi becomes best selling British computer

Sales of cheap, credit card-sized units top 5m says company, eclipsing the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the 1980s

Over 5m Raspberry Pis have been sold since its inception in 2012, making it the best selling British computer ever, according to the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

The cheap, credit-card sized computer sold 2m units by the end of November 2013, 3m by the summer of 2014 and over 4m by the end of 2014.

Just confirmed the big news we've all been waiting for: we've now sold more than 5 million Raspberry Pis.

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We think that this means that in just under 3 years, we've gone from zero to being the biggest selling UK computer manufacturer ever. Yowza.

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