In short, the proverbial ‘perfect storm’. The roots of the global semiconductor shortage itself are linked to supply chain disruption triggered by the pandemic impacting labor availability and by COVID-19 lockdowns simultaneously spiking demand for all sorts of consumer electronics (which of course need chips to power them). To be fair to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, they have been blogging about the supply issue since last year (when they also had to announce some temporary price increases also linked to the “strange times” in global semiconductor supply) - so claiming they’re ‘burying’ the bad news risks sounding a tad conspiratorial.
Anyways, hope they make it through this just be hurting them big time.” You also wouldn’t know it from the Buy buttons on their website… it links to vendors which are all out of stock so they are basically burying how bad it is. It’s so bad that numerous products are backordered into late 2023. One frustrated would-be-Pi buying tipster pinged us directly - wondering: “H ow is Raspberry Pi surviving in this climate? So many of their products have been (and continue to be) out of stock for years. I wanted to order a #raspberrypi but there are no in stock. Unlike Pi itself, these tales of Pi buyer woe are, sadly, all too easy to find online as scalpers have honed in on the supply shortage - firing up stock-buying bots and trying to swoop when a few units appear so they can sell the kit on at vastly inflated prices by exploiting people’s passion to get on with their projects… Keep looking and you’ll probably stumble across social media stories of enthusiasts forking over multiples on the RRP of sought-after boards via non official reseller routes (like Amazon) - hardware that would usually carry an exceptionally reasonable price-tag. are peppered with ‘Out of Stock’ notifications. Go try and buy Pi and you can’t miss how official reseller websites everywhere - such as Pimoroni and SB Components in Europe or AdaFruit in the U.S.
Hardware hobbyists wanting to get their hands on some juicy single-board Raspberry Pi kit to power low-cost electronics projects have been having a frustrating time for more than a year now, as pandemic-triggered global supply chain disruption continues squeezing reseller inventory.
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