My company was using RPI4 for a commercial project, and were going through the official distributors. A member of our Commercial team will contact you shortly. Youre making large quantities of the Pi in the Sony factory a few miles from me in Wales arent you, yet our chances of getting your devices in the next 12 18 months are bleak. Microsoft has fixed the most annoying issue on Outlook for Mac, Steam Deck just got support for a bunch of new games and some nifty bug fixes too, Xiaomi 13 Ultra launch threatens Galaxy S23 Ultra's camera crown. Our own commercial team, our licensees, and our partners at Sony have done a great job keeping components coming in the door and products going out. Whats more, getting your hands on a specific Pi model from a specific retailer could mean having to wait for as long as a year, Upton added. The quantities we got so far does not cover our need of about 600 pieces per month. Im not getting in a queue that long. Digi-Key is also indicating that it will ship the same model now only in 2023. They maybe will have inventory in 2023. We are using the Raspberry Pi 4 as an integral part of our commercial product and despite best efforts to get ahead of supply chain issues, the lack of availability is now catching up to us. According to Upton, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has been able to manufacture around half a million single board and Compute Module products each month. The 2023 stock dates are not just brutal, they are crippling. The display of third-party trademarks and trade names on this site does not necessarily indicate any affiliation or the endorsement of PCMag. Its not just silicon, although this problem is industry-wide: I dont know if youve tried to buy fence posts, concrete or any other building supplies; or red peppers in the USA; or a myriad of other products right now, but its kind of absurd to suggest that the global supply chain problem is our fault. I dont expect to see such a beast any time in the foreseeable future, in part because who would order such a chip so the price would be low enough to fit the Pi0 budget? almost all of them told us the same answer. Weve just had to can one project due to the impossible delivery dates. We are not able to get any Pis. Hi, because of the farnell and sam(your authorized reseller) currently has no Rpi 4 2GB or 1GB . I not get message from your team. (Im also unconvinced that any bots are involved here, but thats beside the point.) Our guidance to industrial and embedded users of Raspberry Pi 3B+ who wish to optimise availability in 2022 is to begin migrating your designs to the 1GB variant of Raspberry Pi 4. "What's stopping us from flexing up is basically everything everything is on fire. A few months ago we went to micro center store again, we were told 2GB has been out of stock for one year, so had to buy 8gb one to build a mine craft server and 6 pieces of CM4. But instead of the demand falling, it actually rose. If there is a single one of those hundreds of components that is unavailable for supply chain reasons, we cant make a Raspberry Pi. Do you have any updates on when you might expect more CM3 stock to arrive? We have overdue commitments to manufacture at least 500 devices and we cant because we cant find RBpi3B or RBpi3B+. Please let me know who I need to get in contact with. Regards. they write the price is between 35$ to 119$ but when we ask for the final price for 1000pcs Rpi4 2GB they told us the price is 119$!! When are you bringing out the raspberry pi 5? We are using CM4 in our products, We cant find any stock in China. Thanks for your help. A member of our Commercial team has contacted you. Its here https://www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk/Operators/article/hutchison-ports-three-uk-announce-largest-uk-port-5g As well as talking to us directly, its worth noting that we have several UK distributors, so its always worth looking around (in this instance though, I suspect well find it easier taking a direct route). Hi Dirk Ive handed your comment over to the people here who might be able to help, and asked that someone emails you. Thank you for all your hard work and everyone working on this computing platform. Please, could you post an availability timeline for your products for this year? Do you have any supply chain updates or any other suggestion to obtain quantities of RPI4 1Gb or 2Gb? Were having trouble finding at least one unit! We started to include the Raspberry Pi 2 and then 3 as a startup. I thought Id be less affected having a Micro Center nearby, but even they have been out of Pi 4s in any variety for a few weeks now :(, Stop Red-shirt Jeff from chopping any more IO. Ive passed it on so someone can have a word. But in October 2021, Raspberry Pi, which makes computer models that cost between $70 a piece to 70 cents, was forced to raise its prices for the first time since its The global hardware components shortage isnt just plaguing the PC market (computers, business laptops (opens in new tab), servers and more), but also the Raspberry Pi (opens in new tab) market, as well, its CEO has confirmed. Liz, going to your authorised resellers is no better. I would love to see a vacuum tubes version of a Raspberry Pi, just to capture the image/video of how different/retro it would look. Weve passed this to our Commercial team so they can try to help you. Our network of Authorised Resellers sells only at the prices we set, so it would be helpful to us to check that one of them hasnt gone rogue. Great update. Thank you for sticking with us: by working together, Im confident well get through the next twelve months in good shape. Its a long shot but its worth a shot :). Its disappointing, but understandable. Thank you very much for all the information. As global supply chain issues moderate, well keep revisiting this issue, and we want to get pricing back to where it was as fast as we can. Hi Alex, we do not have access to the firmware of the wireless chip, so have to rely on the supplier to fix issues. How can we get one piece? LIke everyone im waiting patiently for new products. As many others , RPI 4 is also an integral part of our commercial business. Ive asked the Commercial folks to get in touch. Raspberry pi forever! Thanks if you can help. Is there someone we can speak to regarding bulk orders, or supply chain availability for commercial purposes? You cant fight against money printing. Thanks Tom. I have passed your details on to them and theyll be in touch. Why not bring out some good news like releasing the Pi 5?? Ive passed this on to the people who handle commercial sales, and someone will be in touch with you. Ive asked someone to drop you a line. Amazon.de sell Rasspberry Pi 4 B 4GB for staggering 159 . :-(, Introducing our first ever customer purchasing decrease. (And for a processor an underclocked BCM 2837, as on the 2Bv1.2 perhaps ? Also no pi4s. Im waiting for either Raspberry Pi Zero 2, Pi 3B+ or Pi 4 for more than 1/2 years, all Raspberry Pi products are out of stock in Malaysia . Id love to know. 3) We care very much. Months on and theres absolutely no sign of this even beginning to end. Some local third party seller selling a raspberry Pi 4B 2Gb at USD 200+++ , and raspberry Pi 3B+ price USD150++. It's No Joke. New York, When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Thousands of schools cooperation with us last year. Dallas, TX, USA. All Rights Reserved. The supply chain for boards in the USA has been abysmal for many months and now there appears to be no stock of the 3B(incl +) at any of the listed USA suppliers with no idea on when any stock will be available. Hi. Hi Thomas, The problem is not the shortage but the price skyrocketed thru the roof. Weve been unable to source any for production from your official distributors. I know, right! Broken down by berry types, raspberries account for 75% of the production, blackberries for 25% and other berries for less than 1%, with the supply peaking during We have emailed you directly. Thanks for your help/advice! Glydeck. Besides some of the Pi4B kits also will be available. Hi Paul, Ive passed your question and email address on to folks here who might be able to help, and theyll be in touch. Nvidia shipped broken trash where I had to compile my own kernel to use the thing according to their docs. Is this a chip built on the old 40nm machines? For several years weve expected inexorable progress and I was wondering when wed have a 22nm processor! Our current productions are around 1000 annually and orders increasing to double those numbers next year. And yet you offer NO answers to my questions? Its manufacturing in the 21st century with gigafactories. Can somebody please contact us. Our Commercial team has contacted you. Thanks Marco. Where should I look out for restock. Is there a raspberry shortage 2021? Thanks a ton! I only want 2 8GB lites, although would settle for a single 8gb lite and a single 4gb lite. Supermarkets face a devastating fruit and veg shortage while crops rot in fields this summer because of government delays in allowing foreign pickers into Britain. Thanks. We develop an Open Hardware & Software Project, based on RBPi, for musicians & aficionados from 2016. I wondered when the semiconductor industry shortages would effect the Raspberry Pi. Would you please tell me how can we find some supplies? None of the US Distributors had any information to share with us at the time, and still to this day. ft. and an induatrial size power feed for powering the tubes and attendant HVAC system! Youre not helping the situation the supply chain nightmare is bad for us just like it is for you and all I can do is to reassure you that we are doing everything we can, as it says in the article youre responding to, to overcome the issue. I would be a lot happier about migrating to the Pi 4 (which also isnt available at the moment) if it had a less fragile video connector. Can I get a response as well? Can anyone help us ? Hi Fernando! And so far The Pi Foundation doesnt seem to care, maybe because they already got paid? Mon 20 Dec 2021 // 21:32 UTC Online retailers may not be able to send you a specific Raspberry Pi 4B model even for next year's Christmas. 12 Cream Cheese Dirk Van den Branden, CEO, iQunet. We love the pi, but we are desperately trying to schedule the year and any information would be helpful! Can someone advise when CM4 (4GB, any size Flash) with or without WiFi, will be available in the UK? A new BCM processor on 20/22 nm would be ideal for a Pi 5. I am in dire need of getting a CM3 or CM3 + (any GB capacity). Now, almost two years into the pandemic, theres a global shortage of hardware, with many retailers scrambling to meet the demand, while the prices of hardware continue to rise. Some availability via Amazon/Ebay for kits and some boards but usually way above regular cost. Ill ask someone in the Commercial team to drop you a line. As a small company having put a considerable amount or R&D into a solution based on the CM4 its really painful to have to consider starting again on a new platform. We need around 50+ units, and again cant wait till Oct NOv 2022. I.Q.F And maybe that Raspberry Pi 5 is being mass produced right this very moment! We are a school in Belgium and we work with raspberry pi 3B. Do you have any supply chain updates? Im still chasing some units of rasp 3B or 3B+ for professional use we need around 1k units in order to secure our business we have some open orders but no visibility on it so far. Hi There, me too unable to find any products of CM400416 or CM400432 in stock anywhere (. In contrast, Raspberry Pi 3B+ uses the same wireless chipset as Raspberry Pi 4, with the same FCC modular certification; we expect this similarity to translate into a lower migration cost. Ill kick it up the tree; if this was one of our ARs we may be able to do something. They will always sell at the recommended price. Best regards I have requirement for 30 but will take any! Kindest regards, The price strategy seems sensible given the circumstances. They are in stock at welectron, I have cm4 arriving from them tomorrow. Because for now them absolutely impossible to get and often hard to replace. A member of our Commercial team will contact you soon. Whilst I am glad the commercial team are helping out people wanting bulk orders, it would be nice to know when the ARs are going to get stock. Someone should be in touch soon. Weve built up enough devices to conduct a field beta test and now to start a free field trial, but we will need 30 more Raspberry Pis to have enough deployable devices so we have enough paid subscribers to make the business viable. Ive passed this on to my colleagues, together with the email address you gave when you commented someone will be in contact with you. On the 18th March the Pi 4 orders for 75 units had been despatched according to our account with this particular distributor. Thanks for the update and transparency Eben, its greatly appreciated. When the pandemic kicked off, and people withdrew to their homes, retailers expected the demand for hardware to drop, and started ordering less. WebIt's like almost everything else during the COVID pandemic: Shortage of labor, trucks, and truck drivers, have resulted in high demand and low supply. please check Special Thanks in github. Could drop the node to 28nm to keep the die small enough (and hold down on thermal issues) to be able to support PoP DRAM. Theyre very busy at the moment, but someone will come to you as soon as they get a chance. These challenges will fall most heavily on our older products, built on 40nm silicon: in practice, anything that isnt a Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 400, or Compute Module 4. If you thought the Wests Tigers' start to the 2023 season was bad, think again. We can only get them to do that if the bug is reported with a full set of instructions on how to replicate the issue. The shortage is going from bad to worse, spreading from cars to consumer electronics. For now, good luck and best wishes for the Pi team in navigating the road ahead. The arrival of COVID just sped up that timeline. We require 90 4GB Pis for the first stage and 60 later. Some timeline ? Subscribing to a newsletter indicates your consent to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B8MMD3V?ref_=pe_623860_70668670_dpLink. For all my home projects, Ive now discounted the pi as being unobtainable and Im recommending the same for my contacts. This is not the answer for the problem we have now. As mentioned, I can buy from Alibaba, but prices are more then double, but it is strange these sellers have huge stock where official distributors seem to have none. These bots circumvent the purchasing limits set by your authorized resellers on their websites, thus allowing these 3rd party resellers to hoard stock, creating an artificial shortage, and allowing them to get away with charging a 1000% markup. Xbox Series X Still In Stock At Walmart.com at $499 Price, Shortage Abating? Not censoring. Hi, I've been with PCMag since October 2017, covering a wide range of topics, including consumer electronics, cybersecurity, social media, networking, and gaming. As you will have noticed, it can be hard to buy a Raspberry Pi unit from stock at the moment, he wrote. ), But anyway, these are all dreams for 12 months+ ahead. How are we supposed to differentiate between a Jason C LaFleur who wants to put them in a factory to automate a production line and a Jason C LaFleur who wants to wait until theres a shortage and use them as arbitrage? but hope we learn from it. There is actually a shortage of Raspberry Pi 4s; at work I use the Raspberry Pi 4 for industrial projects, and now I seem to have nowhere to buy them from. Do you encounter many counterfeit boards? Could you please let us know where youre seeing those prices? This is not temporary. Hmmm not a fan of a 400 volt grid circuit on my Raspberry Pi. In December 2021, we reported on the beginnings of the shortage of Raspberry Pi models. Strange comment, asking for more at a time of shortage when less is available . On a 12nm node. Someone will be in touch with you by email. Ive passed on your details and your enquiry to my colleagues; someone will be in touch with you. Is there a commercial or volume purchase department we could referred to for help , please? Really Jeff? We have just completed Beta testing on a Pi 4GB/8GB-based application with one of our clients but now cannot build and deliver. Our Commercial Team will be in touch shortly. We are therefore moving it back to $45 on a temporary basis. Hi, where can I buy some CM4 ? Is there any sort of eta on when the raspberry pi 3 b will be manufactured and shipped to suppliers in the UK? You might have more success with smaller ARs in your geography rather than going straight to the two big ones. And higher Pis may be basicly overkill for simple tasks. We are planning another 500 in the next quarter. Please look into this as you are morally or ethically obliged to do so. That will be a third-party seller taking advantage of a shortage. I think, in the first six months, we did more compute modules than in the whole of last year.". Youre all doing fantastic work. I mean, are the factories actually producing the RPi4 (or 400) or not at all? Chip shortage won't be over soon, Eben Upton belives. dont! Would appreciate a contact if someone can help us on this. Hi Ali, The Commercial team will contact you shortly. If were dreaming of products for 12 months time, to celebrate hopefully the end of scarcity, then what Id like is some new higher spec Pi Zeros (including one with a DSI port), and a Pi40 (the Pi400 motherboard in a plain stackable and rackable box, without the keyboard). since we are out of stock and we are in urgent situation. The RPI is a fenomenal product. They are for some reason assuming that the Pis are being sold like video cards in lotterys or special drops that only happen at certain release times. We are about to launch a new product thats been in the works for about a year, and we are going to need about 1000 Raspberry Pi Zero W per year (ordered in batches of 250 minimum). It doesnt make any future Pi5 appear any faster! I am in the same scenario, could you also contact me to the commercial team? Thanks for both of those links. GPU Supplies Have Gotten Better, But Pricing Can Still Stink. We can help you help you navigate the scarce supplies, price gouging, and As many others have commented, the raspberry pi is an integral part of our commercial business. I see a lot of communities ask for updates and as here in Germany it seems to be impossible to get any powerfull RPI4 based modules, I like to ask if there are any updates, schedule, which would allow instructors of univerity or school classes to manage the demand for their projects and students? Granted the ship date is constantly moving forward currently end of March. Thanks for your comment. Hello Liz, We are also one of the companies that has invested in a custom carrier board for the CM3, and so we very much appreciate your focus on getting more CM3 stock available. We need 150 Raspberry Pi 4 for a research project which has to start soon, but we cannot find any supplier with delivery projection before the Q4 2022. 28 days is plenty of time to wait. Prior to working at PCMag, I was a foreign correspondent in Beijing for over five years, covering the tech scene in Asia. You would need a very large building to house a Raspberry PI built out of tubes, a few hundred people to keep exchanging defective tubes, and a nuclear power plant to power the beast, good luck with that! Trying to stay positive but this is really bad. How on earth do you expect them to release the Raspberry Pi 5 when they are obviously struggling to keep up with current demand due to a global silicon shortage? Kamami Shop However, a similar blog post written in October 2021 quoted production volume of seven million units in 2021, which remained unchanged from the output achieved in 2020. Could I be put in touch with the Commercial team, please? Its only the 2GB device that has gone up in price (back to where it was originally). Raspberry Pi-s available, even with 150$. Such a shame as the pi was a good hacker device but it seems going forward it will become an OEM sourced device that will then surface as an actual equipment product. 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