[monocasa]

> The major thing I can think of is higher volume for the Pi foundation, which means more negotiating power with their chip suppliers or price breaks at a certain ordering volume.

Normally you'd be right. But apparently (the unsubstantiated rumor is that) Broadcom is pissed that RPi built a for profit company on top of the IP licenses Broadcom thought they were donating to a nonprofit and is stone walling RPi wrt getting larger orders than previously negotiated or working with them on an RPi5 and that's the major issue with the continuing stocking issues.

[cushychicken]

That wouldn’t surprise from Broadcom, they’re some petty MFers to work with in my experience lol.

Seems like they’re cutting off their nose to spite their faces at this kind of volume, though.