Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton has hinted {that a} successor to the corporate’s wildly fashionable RP2040 dual-core microcontroller could also be on the best way — and that the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 will launch in 2024, with “a excessive diploma of commonality” with the sooner Compute Module 4.
Talking on the Cambridge Raspberry Jam occasion this weekend, Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton put numbers to the movement of latest Raspberry Pi 5 boards which remains to be struggling to maintain up with sky-high calls for. “At this time, [we] are making about 10,000 [Raspberry] Pi 5s per day, out of a complete of 40,000 Pis per day,” Upton informed attendees, in accordance a abstract posted to Mastodon by Jonathan Pallant.
All of these gadgets, the corporate has beforehand promised, are ring-fenced for makers and tinkerers with industrial consumers being pushed again to 2024 for his or her inventory — a means of constructing up for the shortages which had beforehand plagued the Raspberry Pi 4, with industrial consumers being given precedence throughout the part scarcity disaster.
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, based mostly on the Raspberry Pi 5 (pictured), is coming 2024 — together with, probably, an RP2040 successor. (📷: Gareth Halfacree)
Even with 10,000 models rolling off the manufacturing line per day, although, Raspberry Pi is promoting the boards as shortly as it may possibly make them — with little shock, maybe, given the spectacular efficiency positive factors the system reveals over its predecessor.
Extra fascinating than manufacturing numbers, although, had been Upton’s feedback on the low-cost Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core microcontroller and the Raspberry Pi Pico board on which it sits. “We all know what individuals do not like about [RP]2040,” Upton admitted on the occasion, “the [Arm Cortex-]M0+ [architecture], may have extra RAM, may have extra GPIO [General-Purpose Input/Output], and we all know what individuals do like — the PIO [Programmable Input/Output blocks]… and now we have a chip workforce.”
Whereas Upton stopped wanting asserting an precise successor product, it is clear the corporate is no less than interested by what comes after the RP2040. No launch date for a brand new chip nor a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 to showcase it had been mentioned, however Upton did go on to verify that the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 system-on-module is design-complete and scheduled for launch in 2024 — bringing with it “a excessive diploma of commonality” with the Compute Module 4 and “USB 3.0 the place among the MIPI lane[s] was once.”