At the very least, perhaps some batch tracing could be employed and find out where they are getting them from.Ī couple weeks ago I stopped in at the local microcenter to try to get a (or 2) pi4, cm4, for backlog projects, and a couple picos to experiment with… well, I don’t think they’ve ever gotten cm4, they sold out the pi4s while I was driving there (it’s a hour and half to 2 hour drive). I doubt the scalpers would be happy to pay up front for ones or twos with no visible delivery dates. And as we’d have put our money where our mouth is, the AR can report back what’s actually wanted, you could divert a small amount to fulfil those orders without totally messing up the contracted commercial stuff knowing it’s going to be put to good use by peeps that are watching business development opportunities wither on the vine. For us, investing in pre-payment even with no delivery timescales would be better than hammering away at RPiLocator. Perhaps ARs should be required to enable the taking of single product advanced orders. Meanwhile the carrier boards & accessories we did get for product development before it all went horribly wrong are gathering dust on the shelf for the love of a couple or three mid-range CM4s. Obscure in that email requests to try to find a way are pretty blunt in response. To even add a CM4 to basket you have to be in their club and they have some obscure screening mechanism for who they choose to let in. Nor will they ship to an EU address paid for by a UK credit card. Quite why they can’t ship to the UK I can’t imagine. But has anyone at RPi Towers tried doing any secret shopper activity with the independent websites (ie, not Amz or eBay)? Bundling with inflated price accessories seems the norm, if SB Components isn’t an AR, where do they get the stock that pops up on their site so regularly? But the worst is BerryBase who should be politely and very firmly told that having CM4’s lying about on the shelf for weeks whilst cherry picking the countries it feels is most convenient to ship to is just plain rude. This is progress and it feels right that some should get in to the hands of future innovators this holiday season.
As a result, we can say with confidence that, after a lean first quarter, we expect supply to recover to pre-pandemic levels in the second quarter of 2023, and to be unlimited in the second half of the year.
And if you’re an industrial or enterprise customer who is experiencing supply issues, and you have not already spoken to us, please get in touch with our commercial team at Recovery aheadįor a variety of reasons, we leave 2022 with much better visibility of our future silicon supply chain than we entered with. For those of you looking to buy a Raspberry Pi for hobby projects or prototyping, the advice we gave back in April still holds: always buy from an Approved Reseller (they’re under contract with us to sell at no more than the RRP) use tools like rpilocator to keep an eye on which resellers have recently received stock and consider whether your project is a good fit for Raspberry Pi Pico or Pico W, which remain in a strong stock position. While we’re not quite out of the woods yet, things are certainly improving. These are flowing into the Approved Reseller channel now, and this is already translating into better availability figures on rpilocator. Happy ChristmasĪs a thank-you to our army of very patient enthusiast customers in the run-up to the holiday season this year, we’ve been able to set aside a little over a hundred thousand units, split across Zero W, 3A+ and the 2GB and 4GB variants of Raspberry Pi 4, for single-unit sales. Various aspects of this crisis have impacted our business, but persistent shortages of the semiconductor devices we use to build Raspberry Pi single-board computers and modules has been particularly challenging for us (and a lot of other tech businesses) to manage. If you’ve tried to buy pretty much anything recently, you’ll realise that we are in the midst of a global supply chain crisis, affecting everything from cement and fenceposts to jewellery and clothing. Raspberry Pi being made in our factory in Wales
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