May 28, 2026
Tiny computer, huge comment war
News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development – Jeff Geerling
Pi 6 won’t arrive soon, and fans are already fighting over ports, prices, and purpose
TLDR: Raspberry Pi hinted the Pi 6 likely won’t launch until 2028, and it sounds like the upgrade will be mostly about speed, not flashy new features. Fans immediately split into camps: some say that’s fine, while others are furious about rising prices, old-school ports, and whether these little computers still make sense at all.
The biggest Raspberry Pi bombshell from the AMA wasn’t some shiny surprise feature — it was a delay. The company basically signaled that the Raspberry Pi 6, the tiny computer beloved by hobbyists, probably won’t show up until early 2028. And when it does? Don’t expect wild new tricks. The mood from engineers was more like: same idea, just faster. That instantly set off the comments, where people argued over whether anyone even wants “more Pi” anymore.
Some fans were brutally unimpressed. One commenter practically begged the company to do less, not more, saying the Pi is drifting into awkward territory where it competes with cheap mini PCs and old laptops. Another jabbed at the rising price, pointing out that a loaded-up Pi 5 starts creeping toward devices with far stronger graphics power. In other words: the community’s hottest take is that Raspberry Pi risks becoming too expensive to be the fun little tinkering gadget people fell in love with.
Then came the micro USB meltdown. When an engineer said the Pico board still uses the older plug because USB-C costs more, commenters acted like they’d been personally attacked by a drawer full of ancient cables. One person said they’d gladly pay extra just to “purge the last micro USB from their desktop.” Meanwhile, security-minded users piled on with demands for better protection features, while others joked they’ve bought every Pi generation and still don’t know what to do with them. Honestly, that may be the most Raspberry Pi comment of all.
The least dramatic news somehow became the most revealing: Raspberry Pi’s tiny controller chips are now outselling its main computers, and longtime models like the Pi 3 are still moving nearly a million units a year. Translation: even as the comments turn into a food fight over price, plugs, and identity, the Pi crowd is still very much obsessed.
Key Points
- •Eben said Raspberry Pi 6 would not arrive before early 2028 and is expected to focus on faster CPU and I/O rather than major new hardware features.
- •The article says Raspberry Pi does not appear to be planning a dedicated NPU for Pi 6, with Eben describing the CPU as the company’s preferred venue for AI compute.
- •Pi Zero 2 W supply is constrained by substrate and manufacturing capacity issues, but Raspberry Pi is adding a new vendor and expects the shortage to be temporary.
- •A Pi Zero 3 does not appear imminent because of PCB design constraints, stacked-memory limitations, and high newer LPDDR memory costs.
- •Raspberry Pi said microcontroller shipments surpassed its single-board computer sales in 2025, while software support remains a major engineering priority.