Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton has hinted {that a} successor to the corporate’s wildly in style 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 the moment, [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 patrons being pushed again to 2024 for his or her inventory — a method of constructing up for the shortages which had beforehand plagued the Raspberry Pi 4, with industrial patrons being given precedence throughout the element scarcity disaster.

Even with 10,000 models rolling off the manufacturing line per day, although, Raspberry Pi is promoting the boards as rapidly as it may make them — with little shock, maybe, given the spectacular efficiency features the machine reveals over its predecessor.

Extra attention-grabbing 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 don’t love about [RP]2040,” Upton admitted on the occasion, “the [Arm Cortex-]M0+ [architecture], might have extra RAM, might have extra GPIO [General-Purpose Input/Output], and we all know what individuals do like — the PIO [Programmable Input/Output blocks]… and we’ve a chip crew.”

Whereas Upton stopped wanting asserting an precise successor product, it is clear the corporate is not less than fascinated with 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 substantiate 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 a number of the MIPI lane[s] was once.”