A year 2023 that the company Raspberry Pi wishes to place entirely under the sign of ” put in order “.
Since February 29, 2012 and the release of its first single-board computer model, it goes without saying that the Raspberry Pi company has been on the rise.
Extremely difficult to access
Problem, it was absolutely not ready to absorb an explosion of demand such as it could experience at the beginning of 2020. Even more embarrassing, the formidable growth was accompanied by a logistical upheaval.
The health crisis linked to Covid-19 and its consequences for the entire semiconductor industry completely took the company Raspberry Pi by surprise, which found itself unable to keep up.
In fact, for almost two years, it has been extremely difficult to get your hands on its flagship product, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, and virtually impossible to find its little brother, the Compute Model 4.
Under these conditions, and while we are starting to talk about a Raspberry Pi 5, the CEO of Raspberry Pi Eben Upton has clarified a little about his company’s objectives for the year 2023.
Better for 2023?
To Christopher Barnatt who manages the YouTube channel Explaining ComputersEben Upton explained that he does not should not expect a Pi 5 next year before adding that 2023 was going to be a year to recover “.
The idea is therefore to restore order to current production and not add to the chaos: ” What would be a real disaster would be trying to introduce something like a Raspberry Pi 5 product “.
Above all, Eben Upton seeks not to reproduce the scenarios of the Compute Model 4 (October 2020) and Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (November 2021) whose production has almost always been reserved by manufacturers.
” If we launch a Raspberry Pi 5 today either it will not take off because of the various constraints that exist or it will cannibalize our entire supply chain “.
” The good news is that from the second half of the year, then on to the year 2024, many of these constraints should ease says Eben Upton in the form of encouragement towards this much-talked about “return to normal”.
Still, if the release of a Raspberry Pi 5 does indeed materialize during the year 2024, these five years since the release of the previous model will be the biggest gap in the history of the small machine.
Source : Tom’s Hardware
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