The CEO of Raspberry makes it clear: "Don’t expect a Pi 5 next year"

Dec. 21 (Portaltic/EP) –

the minicomputer raspberries Pi 4 has been on the market for more than three years but the company responsible for its development does not believe that it is time to announce its successor, Pi 5, although it does not rule out that it could arrive from 2024.

Raspberry’s chief executive officer (CEO), Eben Upton, has acknowledged that the last two years have been strange and that they have affected to the release of a new Raspberry Pi, mainly due to the pandemic Already supply problems that have affected the sector.

Raspberry Pi 4 hit the market in mid-2019, and it has become the Raspberry that has been on the market for the longest time, compared to the update cycle of previous models. But Upton has been clear: “Don’t expect a Pi 5 next year“, he said in an interview on the YouTube channel Explaining Computers.

The next one will be “a year of recovery” and “it would be a disaster if we tried to introduce a product like Raspberry Pi 5” and that “cannibalized the recovery of Pi 4 or Pi 303+”, the manager pointed out. Upton, however, has added that he hopes that by the end of next year or already in 2024 the situation will calm down and they can start thinking about what a Raspberry Pi 5 platform would be.