I wonder how many of the 200K+ PIs being manufactured are actually going to consumers. It seems to me that most of the PIs that are being made are just being sold straight to businesses.
Raspberry Pi stated in their launch blog post [1]:
"We're going to ringfence all of the Raspberry Pi 5s we sell until at least the end of the year for single-unit sales to individuals, so you get the first bite of the cherry."
If they were producing (conservatively) 50,000 units per week last year, that would put them at around 0.5 million units sold in single-unit quantities (10 weeks * 50k). Probably a bit more than that.
At this point, I'm not sure of the breakdown, but from what Eben said in the interview (and I have no reason to believe he's lying), they should be able to continue sending out new stock to all suppliers continuously (unlike with Pi 4, where it was sometimes months between shipments to many vendors).
I don't think there's much incentive for businesses to move to Pi 5s. Unless they need the power, which most applications probably don't, I imagine businesses would stick with Pi4s until there's a supply built up.
> Unless they need the power, which most applications probably don't, ...
Personal anecdote: though all press releases claim the pi5 is roughly 3x faster than the pi4, in the real-world tests i've run (as opposed to benchmarks) my pi5 is closer to 4-5x faster than the pi4. e.g. compiling C code and converting videos from one format to another. i.e. the pi5 is, for most things, way overpowered for what i do with my pi4s (NAS, manage several remote backups, and (until the pi5 arrived) video conversion).
i don't know if this is a local or global thing, but all(?) certified pi resellers here in Germany (that is: the resellers linked to directly from the pi site) have limited pi device orders to one per household since at least 18 months.
Eben said a while back that a good number of them are being directly ringfenced off for businesses making products with pis in them while there's a severe shortage, so that they don't go belly up.
geerlingguy|2 years ago
"We're going to ringfence all of the Raspberry Pi 5s we sell until at least the end of the year for single-unit sales to individuals, so you get the first bite of the cherry."
If they were producing (conservatively) 50,000 units per week last year, that would put them at around 0.5 million units sold in single-unit quantities (10 weeks * 50k). Probably a bit more than that.
At this point, I'm not sure of the breakdown, but from what Eben said in the interview (and I have no reason to believe he's lying), they should be able to continue sending out new stock to all suppliers continuously (unlike with Pi 4, where it was sometimes months between shipments to many vendors).
ThatPlayer|2 years ago
sgbeal|2 years ago
Personal anecdote: though all press releases claim the pi5 is roughly 3x faster than the pi4, in the real-world tests i've run (as opposed to benchmarks) my pi5 is closer to 4-5x faster than the pi4. e.g. compiling C code and converting videos from one format to another. i.e. the pi5 is, for most things, way overpowered for what i do with my pi4s (NAS, manage several remote backups, and (until the pi5 arrived) video conversion).
sgbeal|2 years ago
jsheard|2 years ago
extraduder_ire|2 years ago
bogantech|2 years ago