Due to the impact of chip shortage, Raspberry Pi 4 and its sister models have a serious shortage of capacity, even if the price increase is still in short supply, which also makes the Raspberry Pi Development Foundation is helpless, now the official has plans to change the status quo.
Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton said in an interview with Micro Center, the high price is not conducive to the promotion of Raspberry Pi, so they will soon launch a number of upgrades. He expects that the full launch of the new Raspberry Pi in 12 months should be much better than now.
"Creative developers often prefer to use fully featured and affordable Raspberry Pi products, but for more than two years now they have been complaining about the high price and poor out-of-stock issues of the popular single board machine. As of today, even the smallest 1GB configuration of the Raspberry Pi 4 sells for over $100 on Amazon, but thanks to a slow recovery in the supply chain, this rather bad situation can finally come to an end." He hinted that the new Raspberry Pi products will have more processing power, better graphics and more machine learning capabilities, but he did not equate those words with the Raspberry Pi 5.
The foreign media believe that, according to him, the new product, with the same features and direction, is a mere replacement product, which may be replaced by a cheaper chip, thus pulling down the price.
The Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi, abbreviated as RPi, alias RasPi / RPI) is designed for learning computer programming education, only the size of a credit card microcomputer, its system based on Linux. with the release of Windows 10 IoT, users can use the Raspberry Pi running Windows.
