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I don't even understand why its an either-or. Can't they treat the hobbyist market as another pseudo-commercial user, assigning blocks of boards to sell to hob

• detaro 3y ago
  Isn't that what they are doing? Pis do keep popping up briefly at various distributors, just not in the numbers needed to keep them in stock consistently.
  • TeMPOraL 3y ago
    This has been going on for years now; I don't understand why can't the supply be ramped up to match demand. Is this the chip shortage thing again?
    • detaro 3y ago
      Again? Still. Getting parts has been nasty the past few years. (I think my favorite was the supplier that basically said "well, I can prioritize your order if you buy 10k units. Then I can get 500 to you in 6 months. Of course you need to pay for all 10k now. No, I can't tell you when we'll be able to deliver the entire 10k, might be a few years") I don't think they've talked about what their specific constraint is, but given their SoC supply afaik is still entirely dependent on Broadcom I wouldn't be surprised if Broadcom basically said "ok, you can have X units this quarter" and that's that. Not like RPi can easily replace Broadcom and not like Broadcom doesn't have demand from other potentially more important customers to meet.