Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton said in a recent interview that next year is the year that Raspberry Pi and the entire industry recover from the supply chain problems of the past two years. , there will be no Raspberry Pi 5 next year.
Due to the shortage of chips, the Raspberry Pi 4 has suffered from a serious shortage of production capacity. Even with the price increase, the supply is still in short supply, which makes the Raspberry Pi Development Foundation very helpless. In an interview with ExplainingComputers, Eben Upton said hundreds of thousands of devices were ready to be reserved for retail customers during an 18-month period of “constrained supply” of the devices. He pointed out that the companies that mainly occupy the existing supply of Raspberry Pi equipment are not big companies, but “mom-and-pop shops” that produce hardware products based on the Raspberry Pi platform and purchase hundreds of Raspberry Pis to meet demand.
“Don’t expect a Pi 5 next year … Next year is a recovery year,” Upton said. “On the one hand, the supply chain has to slow us down. On the other hand, it slows everything down. .So I think it pays to take a year before we even think about launching anything … to take a year to recover from what just happened to all of us.”
It would be “a catastrophe” if the Pi 5 rollout fails to keep up with demand, or cannibalizes the capacity of other Raspberry Pi devices, Upton said.
Raspberry Pi, the Chinese name of Raspberry Pi, is a miniature single-board computer designed by engineers and computer scientists at the University of Cambridge. The purpose is to promote basic computer science education in schools with low-cost hardware and free software. In the 10 years since its release on February 28, 2012, it has gradually grown into a behemoth in the computer industry, and the Raspberry Pi ushered in its 10th anniversary on February 28, 2022.