According to Tom’s Hardware, Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton revealed that they have produced 10 million RP2040 chips since 2021 and expect to open more Raspberry Pi stores in the future.
He said that Raspberry Pi 2021 purchased 500 wafers. he said should be 12-inch wafers) capacity, each wafer can produce 21,000 to 22,000 RP2040 chips (size of about 2mm2), a total number of more than 10 million.
According to the report, a wafer can produce about 2,000 30mm2 bare chips, and like Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and Raspberry Pi, 4 in 45mm2 chips (respectively BCM2710 and BCM2711) can only make 1400.
During the show, he talked about possible overseas expansion when asked about the Raspberry Pi store. According to Upton, India has a large Raspberry Pi community and it could be a viable location for a future store. If the next Raspberry Pi store is located in India, it would mean that it would be the first Raspberry Pi store not located in the UK.
Publicly available information indicates that the current Raspberry Pi store is located on the first floor of the Grand Arcade shopping center in downtown Cambridge, which opens in February 2019 and offers accessories for the Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi, and more. Of course, the Raspberry Pi Store is more than just a sales store, there are often events, parties, and even developer conferences there.
