Subj : Looking for a Raspberry Pi 5? Shortages could over for good as co To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Mon Jan 15 2024 19:30:05 Looking for a Raspberry Pi 5? Shortages could over for good as company almost doubles production Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:26:21 +0000 Description: Everyones favourite dinky microcomputer is now readily available, including the all-new Raspberry Pi 5. But how much has actually changed since last year? FULL STORY ====================================================================== The popular Raspberry Pi 5 single-board microcomputer should be in ready supply in 2024, with an estimated 70,000 boards a week being manufactured as we write - a figure that, with any luck, should scale up to 90,000 over the course of the year. That's the promise of Raspberry Pi CEO and birth mother Eben Upton, who shared the secrets of the pharaohs with Toms Hardware . Upton attributed the boost to manufacturing numbers in part to Sony - yes, that one - which operates the bakery (chortle!), in Pencoed, Wales, where all the mummy and daddy Raspberry Pis live happily ever after. Hot cakes see steep sales decline as fruity pastry treats back in vogue To make us jealous, Upton told Toms Hardware, [Reaching 90,000 units manufactured a week] is mostly due to bringing more test heads online in the auto test pods. Someone reading this must know what that means, but we like it. Though he claimed that Raspberry Pi 4s were also seeing similar production increases, he didnt have the exact figures. Poor Raspberry Pi 4, all they need is to ask for their half of the inheritance and its basically biblical. Toms Hardware probed Upton as to why more Pis are being made. To this he claimed that its aggressive manufacturing pace would continue until morale improves "backlogs are fulfilled and the channel (Approved Resellers and others) is in a good stock position. Alas, the slippery character managed to back away into a fridge whilst muttering about those meddling tech journalists before we could learn the true, dark, more interesting motive behind this. Analysis: Hi Approved Resellers and others mate Can you actually get a Raspberry Pi, right now, in January 2024? Yes. Im delighted to tell you that the shortage of this niche hobbyist project, that was in full swing throughout the bubonic worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, has eased off considerably in recent months. In fact, opening up Pandoras Checkout Counter was the main catalyst for me both getting one and being anointed, for my strife through the Nine Circles of Linux , as this esteemed publications (even if you want to dispute this, we can at least spell-check a strapline) Raspberry Pi correspondent. And as I can now claim some air of authority on this stuff, Ill say that, yes, the Raspberry Pi is popular, so you might find that the exact Pi with the exact RAM configuration you want isnt immediately available from your Friendly Neighbourhood Approved Reseller. I, for my part, had to sign up to stock alerts to get my Pi 4 Model B , but I didnt have to wait that long, and only had to wait at all because Im bourgeois filth and wanted 8 gigabytes of RAM with it. Fast forward to now, checking the same reseller that I purchased my Model B from last year, its pretty much the same situation: a Pi 5 is available now, if youre willing to opt for only having 4GB of RAM. Honestly, If you want a Raspberry Pi that badly, just pluck out the numbers go brrr mind worm living in your own eyeball and settle for a machine that fits in the palm of your hand and could probably run a manned space mission no matter what configuration you buy it in. (Note from Legal: do NOT try this at home.) Or just do what the rest of us enthusiasts do when we cant immediately get the shiny thing we want: go crawling to the PR machine for a freebie turn the router off for a bit to go and stare at a butterfly. More from TechRadar Pro The Raspberry Pi 5 has ruined my day Look it up, Bookworm - the Raspberry Pi 5 just got its first OS(es) Weve also listed the best Raspberry Pi distributions right now ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/looking-for-a-raspberry-pi-5-shortages-could-ove r-for-good-as-company-almost-doubles-production --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .