Raspberry Pi 5 not arriving in 2023 as company hopes for a “recovery year”

Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton said successful a caller interrogation that adjacent twelvemonth is simply a clip for Raspberry Pi, and the full industry, to retrieve from the proviso concatenation problems of the past 2 years. (credit: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Few who person tried to bargain a Raspberry Pi successful the past twelvemonth whitethorn beryllium shocked, but Raspberry Pi's CEO has an update connected the adjacent Raspberry Pi model: it's not arriving adjacent year.

In an interrogation with ExplainingComputers, Eben Upton reviews the supply pressures that person impacted the single-board computers' availability. Eighteen months into "restrained availability" of the device, Upton says the institution is positioned to acceptable aside hundreds of thousands of units for retail customers. He notes that the companies chiefly taking up the existing proviso of Pi units are not gigantic companies but "mom-and-pop operations" that person based their hardware products connected the Pi platform and bargain a fewer 100 Pis for their needs.

"We don't privation radical to get connected a waiting list," Upton tells ExplainingComputuers. "We privation radical to aftermath up successful the morning, privation a Raspberry Pi, past get 1 astatine 9 americium the adjacent morning."