If you've been holding out for a next-gen Raspberry Pi, the wait just got a lot longer.Eben Upton joined fellow Raspberry Pi honchos, James Adams, the CTO of Hardware Engineering, and Gordon Hollingworth, the CTO of Software Engineering, for a Reddit AMA on r/engineering last week, 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 helpingThe 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, pointing to a seven-fold rise in LPDDR4 DRAM costs over the past year.That announcement also introduced a 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 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 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 remains the best the lineup has to offer, at prices that would have raised eyebrows a couple of years ago.Suggested Read 📖: A New Linux Driver For USB4