Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton has confirmed that customers shouldn’t count on a brand new entry within the firm’s flagship product sequence for at the very least one other 12 months.

Making the feedback throughout an interview (opens in new tab) with Christopher Barnatt, aka ExplainingComputers (by way of The Register (opens in new tab)), Upton expanded by saying that 2023 may be very a lot a “restoration 12 months” from the results the Covid-19 pandemic has had on world manufacturing and provide chains.

He appeared to place a dampener on hopes of recent product launches subsequent 12 months regardless of all however confirming in November {that a} new product in “the hundred sequence” of all-in-one computer systems, that began with the Raspberry Pi 400, may be on the best way.

Raspberry Pi shortages

Again then, Upton appeared to counsel that the RP2040, Raspberry Pi’s first processor produced in-house, was on monitor to ease half shortages. Now, nevertheless, we must always mood our expectations and let the corporate stroll earlier than it could possibly run (once more).

Upton believes that designing, manufacturing and transport a brand new Pi is technically potential for 2023, however doesn’t imagine that it ought to attempt to obtain that in case of extra hassle.

“You realize what would actually be a catastrophe? If we tried to introduce some type of Raspberry Pi 5 product and could not ramp [production] correctly due to constraint.”

Although he didn’t go into an excessive amount of technical element, he did word that “a few of [the supply chain issues] are about packaging, a few of them are about check capability, some are about substrates.”

In November, Upton claimed that Pi shortages have been anticipated to abate “inside a 12 months”, and it’s solely now turning into clear that this wasn’t only a conservative estimate. On this newest interview, he claimed that it could seemingly take till the second half of 2023 earlier than provide chains can resume manufacturing as regular. 

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