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It may be that whatever is currently bottlenecking RPi4 production isn't relevant to RPi5.

• cameron_b 3y ago
  The RP1 I/O custom silicon hints that this may be the case
• a_paddy 3y ago
  Through hole components resulted in previous Pi's being slightly slower to manufacture, the Pi5 only uses surface mount components which should increase Sony's build cadence.
  • tpmx 3y ago
    The bottleneck has been component availability ("supply chain"), not manufacturing.
    • cdt5050 3y ago
      Upton talked about this in an interview. It's partly the interplay of manufacturing at this point, too. When they have parts, they'd like to catch up with the backlog faster. Because the 5 doesn't rely on the robots that place through-hole components, its production can to a degree "overlap" with the Pi 4, basically increasing the total number of boards created per hour. Having two SoCs that don't require the same machines also helps ease a bottleneck there.
      • tpmx 3y ago
        That seems like talk about the future. There can be only one bottleneck at a time.
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