Ebrius Disputatios

Future Raspberry Pi models will feature more USB-C functionality and UEFI firmware. The company's own Linux distribution will continue to be maintained.

Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton in conversation with Daniel Bachfeld (left) and Christof Windeck at Maker Faire 2025.

What's next for the Raspberry Pi single-board computer? Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi Plc., answered numerous questions on this topic on August 23rd at Maker Faire Hannover 2025. He spoke with Daniel Bachfeld, editor-in-chief of Make: magazine, and Christof Windeck from c't. The discussion began with the cost: Upton acknowledged that the current Raspberry Pi 5, with a starting price of around €50 for the 2GB version, is significantly more expensive than the Raspberry Pi 4. He explained that considerably more powerful chips, as well as more and faster I/O ports like PCI Express, simply cost more, in addition to general price increases. However, he promised that future Raspberry Pi models would remain affordable.

Eben Upton initially dodged the question about additional USB-C features. He explained at length that integrating complex USB-C functions was time-consuming, expensive, and prone to errors. Sometimes additional chips were needed to protect the USB port against fatal errors – and these not only cost money but also took up valuable space on the circuit board, which is intended to retain its payment card-sized form factor.

He also mentioned advantages of USB-C, such as the ability to connect displays instead of using HDMI or Micro-HDMI. However, this isn't expected in the upcoming Raspberry Pi 6, but rather in the generation after next. He didn't mention a release year, but based on past experience (Raspberry Pi 3: 2016, Raspberry Pi 4: 2019, Raspberry Pi 5: 2023), a Raspberry Pi 6 isn't expected until the second half of 2026 at the earliest, and a Raspberry Pi 7 probably not until 2030.

UEFI BIOS

According to Upton, the Raspberry Pi developers are already working on UEFI-compatible firmware. This would simplify booting different Linux distributions on a Raspberry Pi. The potential Raspberry Pi UEFI is intended to be compatible with the specifications of the ARM Base System Architecture (BSA). Such UEFI firmware is available for download for the Raspberry Pi 4, allowing certain versions of Windows 10 to boot. For the Raspberry Pi 5, there is rudimentary UEFI support from other developers. Upton also emphasized, however, that they intend to stick with their own Linux distribution, Raspberry Pi OS, for the foreseeable future. It offers the most comprehensive support for Raspberry Pi hardware and makes it easier to maintain projects across multiple Raspberry Pi generations. With Raspberry Pi OS, they also pay attention to memory requirements so that desktop applications can still be used effectively even on Raspberry Pi versions with only 2 GB of RAM.

Raspberry Pi markets and chip development

Raspberry Pi Plc. and Eben Upton himself have been frequent guests at German trade fairs and events such as Maker Faire Hannover in recent years. After the USA, Germany is the most important market for the single-board computers and accessories. However, the company now generates more than 70 percent of its revenue from commercial customers (Original Equipment Manufacturers, OEMs). These OEMs integrate Raspberry Pi components into their own devices, such as the Raspberry Pi Compute Modules (CM), the RP2040 and RP2350 microcontrollers, and the Pico boards (Pico, Pico W, Pico 2, Pico 2 W) equipped with them. Upton meets OEM manufacturers, for example, at the Embedded World trade fair in Nuremberg.

Sales to industrial customers are intended to help further develop the Raspberry Pi product range for hobbyists and the education sector. Raspberry Pi Plc. employs around 140 people and aims to attract and retain talented individuals with good pay and career advancement opportunities.

Chip development

Upton holds an MBA, but his PhD in Computer Science comes from Cambridge, and his passion lies in chip development. He said it's always exciting when the first prototypes of a new chip come off the production line. Often, things go wrong – making the success of the first chip all the more rewarding. In the interview, he also addressed the risks associated with integrating third-party functional blocks into one's own chips. He considers the RISC-V cores in the RP2350 a success, but it remains unclear when RISC-V technology will be able to replace the ARM cores in Raspberry Pi single-board computers.

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The EU decided to spend $4.2 million on UNESCO’s online speech censorship scheme. After JD Vance tried to get through to them, they decided to become even more authoritarian.

They want to quash free speech. While they are becoming more dictatorial, they constantly see the Heil Hitler signal everywhere in conservative photos, but never their own.

This is all Kabuki theatre as far as we can see. This seems very staged. The Russians have got to see that this is a setup. Trump is incoherent on the facts of what is really going on in Russia and Ukraine. He must be acting. He has lost it. Nobody is fooled. Trump will, when the Russians lose interest in this circus, continue to arm Ukraine. Instead of just washing his hand on this stupid, fucking war, the New York Republican is gladly claiming credit for being the first US president to arm Ukraine with Javelins.

Trump and the US are fucking paper tigers and the sooner people realize this, it will lessen the buthurt. Let's talk about Trump's Javelins, The Russians have captured so many Javelins that they probably have more of them in stock than the entire collective west. What a dumb fuck. There are a few things people should never trust. One of them is Republicans from the North East corner of the US. The other one are black republicans. Both groups are confused and conflicted and probably have low IQ issues too.

Trump is hopeless on this issue. Oh and this alleged spat between the EU and the US, it is all fake. It is part of a feeble plan that supposedly, will throw the Russians and their allies off guard, that will give them a respite in the fighting so that the west and by extension, Ukraine can hopefully regroup and get their asses together. It's a fantasy. The war is lost and not only is it hard for the UK and EU to accept the fact, it seems that Trump is going along, for the ride. Fucking Morons.

The people who think that the US, the EU, this whole fucking planet is worth saving, need to wake up. This is a condemned building just ready to implode upon itself. How in the world does one fix that? I'm done, we are overrun by fools. I'm triggered of course by this article on RT about Trump's 25% tariffs on the EU and the fake rift that everyone is pretending is occurring between the two entities.

No doubt the boomers are ecstatic. The Deep State whomever they are, are still pulling the strings, despite Trump being in the White House and playing his part. If Trump was serious about ending the aggressions between Russia and the Ukraine he would have long since, washed his hands. However, if one listens carefully to the Trump team, to his new secretary of defense, one will hear what the real plan is.

NATO, the EU and the US are spent. They're calling for a time out in order to regroup and adjust their war machines in order to comeback and resume operations to conquer Russia. Now, they're planning to obstruct China in the meanwhile while trying to gain the upper hand. ZOG should never be trusted.

Neither the EU, the US or the UK are accountable to their citizens. They march to the beat of another drummer. In the US at least, the elitists in charge have determined to pacify the natives for the time being, and are adjusting the boiling point on the proverbial frogs but nothing, has changed. The empire is hell bent on hegemony and world dominance and any Americans who think that ambition, will benefit them, because they're citizens, should keep their powder dry because we do not matter. We have been warned.