Raspberry Pi's main goal during the shortage is to not let companies that rely on Raspberry Pi to die.Any OEM who is not getting the Pis they need should email.They set up a new process to ensure the OEM's they're supplying aren't scalping the boards.They are ring-fencing some supply for customers (they did not mention how many, exactly).They are still prioritizing OEM customers (who have built their products around the Pi).Everything in the April blog post is still valid.
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With all this in mind, and since there hasn't been an official update since Eben Upton's post on the Raspberry Pi blog in April, I asked directly about the shortage. How many of the commercial and industrial users of the Pi would be incorporating it into their products (thus depending on Pi stock for their own survival) without the huge community of individual developers, makers, hobbyists, and educators who made the Raspberry Pi as popular as it is today? Official response from RPi This is far from ideal, and many in the maker/hacker community (myself included) feel betrayed by an organization that grew quickly based on the grassroots adoption of the Raspberry Pi since 2012. and right now they are still prioritizing OEM partners over end-user retailers like Adafruit,, Micro Center, and other retailers selling individual units.
Even behemoths like Nvidia, Intel, AMD, and Apple are still being affected.īecause of the shortages, Raspberry Pi have not been able to increase production to meet demand, therefore they have to prioritize where the Pis they make go. This is the same issue plaguing car manufacturers. Production limitations because of the global components shortage.Īnd because of the second point, Raspberry Pi can produce a limited number of Pi models based on the Broadcom BCM2711 SoC.They continually improve their documentation and focus on a great end-user experience for beginners and advanced users. Instead of throwing hardware at the wall, seeing what sticks, and relying on developer communities to support their hardware with distributions like Armbian, Raspberry Pi actively supports their boards, all the way back to the original Pi model B. Raspberry Pi is one of the few SBC vendors (maybe the only one) to tackle the most important feature for adoption and ongoing end-user happiness: support. Sadly, the only reliable way to buy a Pi immediately is to pay scalping prices on eBay or buy bundles that include often-unneeded components to pad out the price of a normally-$35 Pi to $100 and beyond. Long-time followers of know how short-lived Raspberry Pis are at official retailers like Adafruit and Pi-Shop, even with purchasing limitations in place.
The Pico and Pico W are both readily available, at least in most markets where I've looked (local shortages always exist, but typically not for months or years like with full-size Pis).Ī service has even been set up since early this year just to scan different vendors to find when Pis are in stock, and alert people via Twitter and other means. To be clear, I'm speaking of the mainstream SBC Raspberry Pis, like the Pi 4 model B, the Compute Module 4, the Pi Zero 2 W, and even in many cases the Pi 400. or at least, not without a lot of patience or a fat wallet.īut why? And are there any signs Raspberry Pis will become available to the general public again soon?
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