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So what was the technical problem that caused the ship date to be pushed into late February?

• freehunter 15y ago
  If I remember correctly, one of the chips they had in mind when designing the board was no longer in production, or the price had gone up. Actually, I looked it up and yes, one of their components had been replaced and they had to design for the new version. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/615 http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/615 -edit: sorry, after re-reading it, it doesn't seem like they designed for the new one, they just had to wait while the factory found enough of the old version. But that's why it was delayed.
  • jacquesm 15y ago
    Par for the course in the hardware world, one of the reasons why I'm very happy my soldering iron has retired. The probability of a chip being eol'd for <insert random reason here> is inversely proportional to the number of pin compatible replacements made by alternate sources.
    • beagle3 15y ago
      And that makes perfect sense: If something is essentially guaranteed to sell well, competitors would produce it as well. If something is not selling well enough to produce compatible replacement, then it is likely marginally profitable to produce or not at all.