On Thu., Feb. 17, 2022, 10:29 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

I would like to think that they are drawing down inventory for a Pi Day announcement. That seems to be an unlikely reason when so many models are
OOS.

No, it's not that (and believe me, as an AR, I have to be very careful what I say). Such is the demand for 2-8 GB Raspberry Pi's, they sell out in minutes when any supplier gets stock.

There's a whole QAnon-like thing around the mythical Raspberry Pi 5. I've heard people claim that the worldwide chip shortage has somehow been engineered by Raspberry Pi Trading so we'll all be forced to buy the Raspberry Pi 5 when it comes out. I wish I were making this up ...

Stewart