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# Don't Expect a Raspberry Pi 6 Until At Least 2028
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/raspberry-pi-6-delayed/
- Published: 2026-05-27T17:57:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-27T17:57:58.000Z
- Description: Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton confirmed that in a Reddit AMA recently.
- Author: Sourav Rudra
- Tags: News, Gadgets 🎛️

If you've been holding out for a next-gen Raspberry Pi, the wait just got a lot longer.

[Eben Upton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebenupton/?ref=itsfoss.com) joined fellow Raspberry Pi honchos, [James Adams](https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/author/jamesadams/?ref=itsfoss.com), the CTO of Hardware Engineering*,* and [Gordon Hollingworth](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordon-hollingworth-056a322/?ref=itsfoss.com), the CTO of Software Engineering*,* for a Reddit AMA [on r/engineering last week](https://www.reddit.com/r/engineering/comments/1tcyfvk/hello%5Frengineering%5Fwere%5Feben%5Fupton%5Fceo%5Fjames/?ref=itsfoss.com), and **the Pi 6 release timeline** was among the top things to come up.

Eben's response put the Pi 6 on a 4 to 4.5-year cycle from the Pi 5 launch, meaning **early 2028** at the absolute earliest. He didn't seem in any particular rush either, noting the Pi 5 is still a capable flagship that could comfortably hold that position beyond even that window.

According to him, the new SBC will essentially be a Pi 5 with better internals like a faster CPU, more I/O, and more DRAM bandwidth. He called it "*quantitative changes, not qualitative ones*," meaning no new ports, no M.2 slot, nothing that would make the current board feel dated by comparison.

## The RAM situation isn't helping

The timing makes a bit more sense once you look at what memory prices have been doing. In April, Raspberry Pi pushed through [another round of price increases](https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-new-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-for-83-75-and-more-memory-driven-price-increases/?ref=itsfoss.com), pointing to **a seven-fold rise in LPDDR4 DRAM costs** over the past year.

That announcement also introduced a 3GB [Raspberry Pi 4](https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/?ref=itsfoss.com) at **$83.75**, as a way to give prospective buyers a cheaper option between the 2GB and the now-considerably-pricier 4GB.

The [Pi Zero 2W](https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/?ref=itsfoss.com) is in the same boat. Eben flagged it as the only product in an actual shortage right now, with supply squeezed by AI chip demand. A new supplier has been brought on though, with expectations that stocks will recover before the year is out.

So for now, the [Raspberry Pi 5](https://itsfoss.com/deepseek-r1-raspberry-pi-5/) remains the best the lineup has to offer, at prices that would have raised eyebrows a couple of years ago.

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