CM4 availability? Are we waiting for RK1?

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I have a Turing Pi 2 sitting in its box on my desk but haven t found the CM4 modules with 8GB of RAM that I want for a not absurd price Is there some way you all are finding these or are you waiting for the RK1 s to be developed Really want to put this thing to work but it s been difficult to fill it Will backers of the TP2 get dibs on the RK1 s

drillbit_ · Answer

I went with https pine64 com product soquartz 8gb compute module w

drillbit_ · Answer

expensive but does work with the CM4 backplate

werdnum · Answer

Lots of ram which is great but seems like it s 4xA55 instead of 4xA72 so won t be as fast

werdnum · Answer

JFYI

werdnum · Answer

But a slower module is better than no module

werdnum · Answer

Fwiw I expect CM4 to be widely available before RK1 It will be at least a few more months before the latter are available and CM4 availability has been gradually improving since March or so

werdnum · Answer

But there are good reasons to wait for an RK1 too NVMe support and faster too plus 16G available 32G will be a while

zee · Answer

Not really a hardware guy I bought the TP2 to do some distrubuted computing personal projects requiring some CPU and RAM Storage is less important

werdnum · Answer

16G RAM I mean

zee · Answer

Also when you say CM4 availability is better how I m probably not doing this right but I would love to buy 4 8GB RAM CM4 s

werdnum · Answer

I mean that they are popping up more frequently and staying in stock longer 500 of the one you want were on PiShop us the other day

werdnum · Answer

the RPi foundation has messaged that supply is improving over the course of this year

zee · Answer

Will wait for the RK1 s if I need to but really want to get this to work

zee · Answer

I ll stalk pishop more often then

werdnum · Answer

I expect you ll easily be able to get hold of what you want by the end of the year and probably much before that if you re motivated

werdnum · Answer

See rpilocator too for example

werdnum · Answer

I got my 4GB modules a few months ago when Mouser had posted them with a confusing SKU which some people here caught onto Those were available for at least a week

zee · Answer

I m going to have to be more motivated Need to get this thing running

zee · Answer

Well I was motivated kept hitting refresh on rpilocator and bought four 8GB CM4s They were the expensive ones with storage and WIFI but I feel better knowing they re on the way Now to figure out case and cooling

netweson · Answer

I m in the same boat Thought of selling as none availability but no one wanted it