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> but is what I had read explaining the inability to get RPI4s and RPI5s over the past year.

RPi5 never really had a shortage; there was the couple of months of "preorder" during launch.

During the post-COVID extended Raspberry pi shortage, a big percentage of production went to keeping OEMs happy to avoid screwing customers that had designed in RPi products.



> big percentage of production went to keeping OEMs happy to avoid screwing customers that had designed in RPi products.

To avoid screwing /a selected subset/ of customers that had designed in RPi products.




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