Raspberry Pi stocks are back to normal. More and more units are being produced and delivered to waiting customers, while purchasing restrictions are gradually being lifted.
Not easy to get your hands on a Raspberry Pi, this microcomputer that fits in your hand, but can still run Windows 11 if you want. It’s been years since the vast majority of resellers display stock shortages for almost the entire line of the brand’s products. Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi, declared that 2023 would be “the year of recovery”, but it will still have to wait 6 months before seeing an improvement.
Production of microcomputers has increased steadily since January, reaching today 1 million units per month. A rate that Eben Upton says he can maintain “as long as necessary to clean up the remaining customer arrears and return to free availability”. In effect, several official reseller sites finally offer the different versions of the Raspbery Pi for purchase.
Raspberry Pi stocks are finally back to normal
The situation is not yet fully stabilized. The temporary price hike of the Raspberry Pi 4 2GB is still present, and the company’s CEO also hinted that development of the Raspberry Pi 5 is on hold. First, he wants to focus on a sufficient availability of model 4, released a little over 4 years ago. Finally, some sellers continue to impose purchasing restrictions to prevent a person from purchasing too many products in one order. How quickly these limitations will be lifted will vary by retailer.
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We can still hope for a return to normal in the remaining 6 months of 2023. Good news when we know the almost infinite possibilities of the Raspberry Pi, from the retrogaming console to robots, including cameras, systems video surveillance or even a book that tells the story you want thanks to ChatGPT (yes). No need to wait for version 5, the current Model 4 is more than powerful enough to do all that.
Source: Ars Technica