It seems like yesterday, but in reality more than two years have passed since the moment the world finally met the RaspBerry Pi 4.
A generation change that hardware fans have been asking for for quite some time and that we could say turned out very well.
Its predecessor, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ It looks like it in too many superficial ways, but there are actually multiple elements where it did represent a complete evolutionary leap.
However, curiously, at this point, the fourth generation of this board is already in the same conflict as the model released in 2019.
Where the fans begin to press, ask and even demand the arrival of the RaspBerry Pi 5. So its CEO has come out to talk a little about the matter.
The RaspBerry Pi 5 is a while away but the component crisis is over
A change of generation is often understood as something urgent and necessary to mark a new era of hardware, but sometimes it could be somewhat manipulative.
Such is the case that we have experienced this year with the launch of the processor Apple M2which in reality would be something like an M1.5 in terms of power and capabilities, but the guys from Cupertino couldn’t help but clamor for the jump.
On the contrary, all the people behind RaspBerry act in a diametrically opposite way. Eben Upton, creator and CEO of RaspBerry Pi has just been interviewed by Micro Center and thanks to this we have discovered some interesting news in the boards, chips and hardware industry:
“I think within a year, hopefully, the Raspberry Pi will have recovered from the lingering effects of the Covid 19 pandemic.”
In other words, with this line we would be seeing the beginning of the end of this turbulent era, where the shortage of chips and semiconductors was permanent. And we will begin to notice it with this hardware.
In the same way, he spoke about the future of new products developed by the company. Where he anticipated that there wouldn’t be a RaspBerry Pi 5 for a while.
Although the new models would undoubtedly have more processing power, better graphics power and greater machine learning capabilities.
So it’s quite likely that we’ll see a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B+ or something like that long before the exec and the whole team jump into a next generation.