Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi, interviewed on December 14 2022. Eben talks about supply pressures, Raspberry Pi availability in 2023, industrial Pi applications, his take on RISC-V, and when we may see a Raspberry Pi 5.
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https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/supply-chain-update-its-good-news/
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Chapters
01:28 Supply pressures
04:33 Pi availability in 2023
13:50 Pi prices
18:35 Industrial applications
22:43 RISC-V
27:52 Raspberry Pi 5?
#RaspberryPi #EbenUpton #ExplainingComputers
29:30 "Don't expect a Pi 5 next year." Well, that aged well.
@cmdrwhiskeygalore3044 Says:
Eben Upton is lying. There are no boards. Look at alternatives.
@andychow5509 Says:
I've been on the waiting lists for 2 years, no go. Gave my emails to sourcers. They always seem to have kits available, with cheap SD cards, cheap unofficial cases, and cheap unofficial overpriced power supplies and cables.
The Raspberry Pi organization should for resellers to sell at least as many barebones boards as they sell total bundles. I don't believe they are responsible for the shortage, I believe they are doing everything they can to stabilize the market, but the resell market is real and terrible.
@Fattydeposit Says:
We're almost halfway through 2023 now and most Pi products are still unobtainable - with the smallest drips of the least desirable ones appearing on rpilocator for a few minutes before they're gone. At this point they cannot still be blaming COVID affecting supply chains when non-public clients seem to be getting their stock and other manufacturers who use similar components seem to be up and running ok.
@mnrobards Says:
when will we be able to purchase raspberry pi’s ? Lots of talk and but no answers. I did not know that the Raspberry Pi was developed as a industrial computer board
@qzorn4440 Says:
Most exciting video. Will the new Raspberry Pi-5 go toe to toe with the Orange Pi-5? The OPi-5 works very well and is the typical Chinese Junk on support examples and documentation like making the GPIO PWM, I2C work in Thonny-Python without messing around. OPi.GPIO SUCKS!! 🥵 I love the Raspberry Pi family they just work. 🥳 Thank you Mr. Upton. 😎
@taylor-worthington Says:
The thing about Raspberry Pi is that the journey is usually the part that you remember anyways https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U_oHLRJrKl4
@christophermccarty1867 Says:
This is one of the worst business men!! I will never spend my money on this jackass anymore
@miketan373 Says:
tnx to both of you
@saltedlolly Says:
Are we likely to ever see a 16Gb Pi 4, or are we going to have to wait for Pi 5 for a 16Gb Pi.
@deadlinerhorus Says:
why should we tolerate that industrial usecase is the only one that has been focused at? It was us - the geeks - that established the demand for something greater, and we are completely driven aside, only big money counts and no one reminds.....BAD Idea, Mr. Upton!
@fatihcemalcan3280 Says:
I am not a native English speaker. I could understand very little words from Eben. It is very hard to me to catch words. Because he is speaking so fast.
I could understand every word from Chris. (Chris) You are fine speaker and you should be a public speaker. Thank you for your videos.
@cataelectron Says:
Seeing this interview made me really angry! So what this Jason Statham wannabe is telling us is that they used the open source community to test and perfect a product and then they have thrown said community under the bus for profit. I can now buy a full-fledged 2.5G 4 port intel x86 quad core router cheaper than an rpi4. And you know why? Why the rpi has this value? Because of the great open source software solutions built by the community! Shame on you Mr Upton!
@kainenable Says:
What i do not understand is why they have not been working on the next iteration. Seems like they have additional capacity at TSMC for their smallest node size. I would love to see a new pi with similar power draw, but more powerful, nvme, and hardware video encoding.
@GVSolo Says:
The Raspberry Pi is truly an amazing product and yes it has been EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING to see not only the lack of the product but also the JACKED-UP prices for the few you can find. I hope the supply goes back to what it's supposed to be and the prices leveled back to reflect the original intent behind what the Raspberry Pi was created for.
@robertlock5501 Says:
Here we are almost two months later and Amazon is asking 135$ for a Pi 3 B+ .... f#@&ing ridiculous :-/
@akfreed6949 Says:
The Raspberry pi people need to fix the shortage NOW because there's now similar single board computers coming out that are available and more powerful and just a little more expensive in some cases . I've gotten 2 Orange pi 800s as presents . I've had no shortage problem getting them either .
@rigelkent8401 Says:
Top filght ceo talking there raspberry will never have a problem with Endon in charge.
@anthonydyer3939 Says:
I’ve been relying on the raspberry pi zero to run lighting and ventilation in my bathrooms. It’s been running for four years now and it’s been reliable. But the question remains: what do I do if it does fail? In pre pandemic times you could just get a new pi zero next day and the problem is solved. But now I have to either accept showers by torchlight if it fails or consider buying another pi zero to hold purely as a spare “just in case”. It’s true that shortages fuel extra demand!
@Robbie-mw5uu Says:
Eben Upton is an insecure child who said "I don't want Raspberry Pis being used by right wing users" People like him should not be in any positions of power and only seek to harm societal progress.
@jonjohnson2844 Says:
Eben explained the inflation crisis perfectly without even realising
@sfliberal Says:
Thank you for this interview. Mr. Upton is doing "God's/FSM's work", as it's said, with Raspberry Pi. Turns out Raspberry Pi's are used not only for education and corporate usage (both good things), but also for home servers, as I do with Pi 4's. Properly configured, they make fine firewall boxes as well. The low-power nature of them is also eco-friendly, and should power go out, the Pi's will stay up for a pretty long time on an UPS compared to a typical x86-64 machine (Intel Core, AMD Ryzen, etc.). Using Raspbian and a sensible overclock, a Pi 4 with 8GB even makes a rather useable, and again eco-friendly, desktop computer for what most people use a computer for.
@l000kin Says:
Raspberry Pi? I heard, that it was some computer sold many years ago... In history. Somebody also says, that it maybe should come back some day in far far future... 😛
@mikewurlitzer5217 Says:
I stopped using RPi's when they, like way too many companies, found a price gouging opportunity during the plandemic. I've saved thousands of dollars so far. RPi's were once a great concept and cost effective but no longer.
@churroman183 Says:
Wish you got more views for this video.
@hiteck007 Says:
Update from my supplier, rang them 8 months ago as they said they'd have stock in Jan & now rang again in Jan but now another delay to virtually the end of this year now #@$%. NO STOCK CAME FOR THE THIRD TIME NOW. This is the #@$% last straw, 3 years no stock anywhere is B/S. I only wanted just one Pi4 8gb but even that is too much to ask.The R PI is a DEAD computer like the AMIGA.
@DankRCX Says:
Am I the only one who was infuriated by this interview? As always, hobbyists are last. If only you were an industrial corporate customer that bought 100,000 units a year, there would be no shortage for you. Basically for the last two years, there has been zero production for end users. Funny, I can still buy EVERYTHING else tech except RPi's. I give the RaspberryPi Foundation a life long demerit in my naughty book.
@lepidoptera9337 Says:
The Raspberry Pi was never a suitable foundation for an industrial app. I have a few, I use one. I would never ship anything based on it to a customer. What the hell are you guys thinking? If you need a custom computer, then you have to design one and build the necessary supply chain.
@lumpython5351 Says:
My patience is already gone.
@ronan4681 Says:
I gave up designing products for the raspberry pi. I wasted way to much time developing products for clients that I cannot deliver due to unavailability of cm4 modules in Australia.
@M00SEYM00SE-e6d Says:
So sad... a visionary company reduced to industrial PC suppler. Good luck with that.
@tinkerman5220 Says:
LOL!! Yes, please leave the scalpers with hands full of inventory they have to sell below cost.
@KDG860 Says:
I have trouble accepting this rubbish regarding shortages in the consumer market. They cannot be found anywhere. The consumer market made the Pi what is became and the company turned the backs on us.
@yesplusca Says:
I switched to odroid few years and it seems more powerful then any of raspberry pi but software part the pi win !
@ferencszabo3504 Says:
Even if the Raspy 4 would get back, I think is too late and pricey! It was a wild ride but it's time for the alternatives !
@przemassssssssssssso Says:
Still bad news for this platform, time to tranzition to other solution. It was greate product .Fundation??? its only F.... Bussiness.
@rogerpollack Says:
So us “enthusiasts” are still 2nd class citizens in the eyes of Raspberry Pi Trading. Got it.
“Hello Orange Pi, will you take my money? Oh, yes is it? Great be right over”
@Crushonius Says:
so no pi 5 in 2023 ??? as much as i really respect you Eben that is absolutely NUTS
that might be the final nail in the coffin for raspi imho the pi 4 is already really slow compared to the competition
but now the prices and availability of rk3588 boards are getting better every day
if the prices for rk3588 boards go below a 100 us dollars the pi will be in a world of hurt (rk3588 is 3x performance).
sorry but you basically said it yourself the last two years you concentrated on industrial customers and it shows
you left the enthusiast / educational community in the ditch even though they made the pi what it is today .
After this interview i am completely done with the pi foundation they have completely missed the mark
their fastest computer can not play a 1080p youtube video in 2023 what a joke smartphones could do that a decade ago easy.
by the time pi 5 comes out the pi 4 will have been around for 5 years
and to be honest i thought it was already slow when it came out
99 dollars could buy you a xiaomi phone back then that was faster had a 5 inch display and battery
@malcomflibbleghast8140 Says:
uk needs to grasp the nettle of NOT relying on ccp manufacturing factories. its suicide not to sort this problem out.
@ronyzmiri Says:
There are many among us that know very little about Raspberry Pi. Perhaps it is time to make a video explaining the whole subject of Raspberry Pi for beginners?
@CorenMHR Says:
Who let Jason Statham design computers anyway?
@onbak3214 Says:
first i thouhgt he was jason statham
@OurPastSecrets Says:
This is a great interview. I interviewed Eben during the shortage so it’s good to see it’s ending
@SlinkyD Says:
My takeway from the first 3min is that professionals the world over don't understand customer behavior or the markets they're in.
Only ones on the ball was the black market guys. More business acumen than the suits.
@neelstheron3252 Says:
What I take from this is that only in 2024, we will see the Raspberry PI 5!
@kerbsidemotors9249 Says:
As an appliance they are ok, but still a toy having numerous. Floating round a disappointing outcome. Ysf Voice gateway about only reliable use- even then failures of boards.
Have a 4 sitting in a argone one case doing nothing.
The 400 without ssd another turd.
Recently been given a pi 4 and ir cut camera, have it running motion eye - pile of crap compared to a £25 wifi ptz ir camera.
@NickNorton Says:
TSMC are too busy making 5nm silicon for the likes of Apple.
Rather than useful stuff for everyone else.
The machines that make machines need > 5nm process silicon now.
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