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This £4 computer has been made in Wales and is being given away with a magazine in America.

The Raspberry Pi Zero is made in Bridgend and is the company’s smallest device to date, measuring just 65mm long and 30mm wide.

It is available from today across the UK and America, and is even being given away free with each copy of the December issue of The MagPi in the US.

It is also available for purchase in the UK.

Sony began production of the Raspberry Pi at its UK Technology Centre in Bridgend in 2013 with more than five million of the credit card-sized mini computers having been made there.

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It comes with a Broadcom BCM2835 application processor that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system into a single chip.

It has a 1GHz ARM11 core, which makes it 40% faster than the original Raspberry Pi 1, and has 512MB of RAM.

There are slots for a micro-SD card, a mini-HDMI socket for video output, and micro-USB sockets for data and power, giving developers and programmers a wide range of options when it comes to what to do with the device.

Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton wrote in a blog : “Of all the things we do at Raspberry Pi, driving down the cost of computer hardware remains one of the most important.

“Even in the developed world, a programmable computer is a luxury item for a lot of people, and every extra dollar that we ask someone to spend decreases the chance that they’ll choose to get involved.

“Since 2012, millions of people have used a Raspberry Pi to get their first experience of programming, but we still meet people for whom cost remains a barrier to entry. At the start of this year, we began work on an even cheaper Raspberry Pi to help these people take the plunge.”

He added that the the Raspberry Pi family, featured:

A Broadcom BCM2835 application processor

1GHz ARM11 core (40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1)

512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM

A micro-SD card slot

A mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output

Micro-USB sockets for data and power

An unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header

Identical pinout to Model A+/B+/2B

An unpopulated composite video header