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He started a computing REVOLUTION—then the shortage hit

Jeff Geerling · 224.2K views · 2023-05-18 · 37:45

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Jeff Geerling interviews Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton about the Pi shortage, the RP2040, RISC-V, the Sony investment and the origin of the name.

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HN recommends it to explain why Pi supply favored business customers during the shortage, straight from a founder.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2023–2023

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PointedDreams · 2023-07 · Recommendation

This interview with one of the founders from Jeff Geerling was quite insightful, definitely check it out if you haven't already! [VIDEO]

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lvturner · 2023-06 · Recommendation

There's a great interview with Eben Upton that explains a lot of this, including what "Business customers" actually are (i.e. mostly mom and pop style enterprises) [VIDEO]

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nyanpasu64 · 2023-08 · Reference

I'm still upset that Raspberry Pi was focused on ensuring institutional customers (like these electric scooters) could order thousands of Pis, while leaving hobbyists trying to order single-digit quantities scrambling through years-long waiting lists and listings which get snapped up in seconds ( [VIDEO] ).

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