Raspberry Pi 5 shortages shouldn't last long

Raspberry Pi stated in their launch blog post [1]:

"We're going to ringfence all of the Raspberry Pi 5s we sell until at least the end of the year for single-unit sales to individuals, so you get the first bite of the cherry."

If they were producing (conservatively) 50,000 units per week last year, that would put them at around 0.5 million units sold in single-unit quantities (10 weeks * 50k). Probably a bit more than that.

At this point, I'm not sure of the breakdown, but from what Eben said in the interview (and I have no reason to believe he's lying), they should be able to continue sending out new stock to all suppliers continuously (unlike with Pi 4, where it was sometimes months between shipments to many vendors).

I don't think there's much incentive for businesses to move to Pi 5s. Unless they need the power, which most applications probably don't, I imagine businesses would stick with Pi4s until there's a supply built up.

i don't know if this is a local or global thing, but all(?) certified pi resellers here in Germany (that is: the resellers linked to directly from the pi site) have limited pi device orders to one per household since at least 18 months.

Eben said a while back that a good number of them are being directly ringfenced off for businesses making products with pis in them while there's a severe shortage, so that they don't go belly up.

Eben needs another holiday home