Raspberry Pi in mass production?

Do you have a approximate date when will the Raspberry Pi go in to ‘Mass Production’ so we can all get our hands on more than one!

I would like to get this products down to the intended grass roots level i.e. buy one for my son and nephews.

morgaine over 13 years ago

I'm not aware of any figures for planned mass production volumes (boards per month) announced by either distributor or by the Foundation. Also, neither distributor has released any hard figures for registrations of interest and/or preorders received, and we can't begin to estimate the rough month by which there will be boards available from stock without knowing production rates. In fact, we don't even know by which year that will be.

The Foundation must know the volumes of the BCM2835 SoC being released by Broadcom for Rpi manufacture, and the rate of SoC production which is probably the main limiter, so the Foundation could easily tell the community the overall numbers being produced without requiring information from the other two parties, if it wished. So far they haven't been open about numbers from the Broadcom side though..

A reasonable question is whether the SoC is even available in sufficient quantity to allow RS and Farnell to ramp up production into hundreds of thousands per month. For all we know, most SoC stocks may be assigned contractually for Roku 2 production (the only other product known to use BCM2835), so Rpi may only be getting a trickle. Without the Foundation saying anything about SoC volume availability for Rpi, we can't even begin to guess.
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GreenYamo over 13 years ago

Doody, June is being hinted at by posts in the RasPi forum by Jenny Frost.

I think that is about as much as you are gonig to get at the moment!
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