Pandaboard withdrawn

On the Farnell site it says that the Pandaboard ES is not available and is ‘no longer manufactured’.

Whereas the RPi has been produced in such large numbers that it is likely to be available for many years. Even then I guess that cheap second-hand RPi’s are going to be around for decades. Also RISC OS on the RPi is probably going to get better due to ‘leverage’ from all the other active developers for Linux et al. Floating point performance, graphics and USB drivers spring to mind.

We need to remember this everytime somebody says “Why don’t we port RISC OS to such and such a new super-duper board”.

Ralph

Well that sucks! I expect it’s going to be panda-monium at the remaining resellers. (Insert other panda related puns here)

Although there’s been no official announcement that I’ve seen, it looks like Pandaboard production has been discontinued in favour of the new OMAP5 EVM:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.embedded.pandaboard/10869

There was a Info from SVT. New ES should be aviable at the end of April… so now. On her shopping page it is not on stock.

We need to remember this everytime somebody says “Why don’t we port RISC OS to such and such a new super-duper board”.

I agree but the Pandaboard + port was aviable before the RPiboard + port.

That is just Farnell and they should really be saying ‘No longer stocked’. Rumours of its death are greatly exaggerated.
One of our suppliers says:
NOTE: Due to short supply of components, delivery lead times for the Pandaboard are currently longer than usual. Orders are processed and shipped at a first-come-first-serve basis.

Another supplier is quoting three weeks delivery.

Anyway, we have good stocks of PandaROs, so nothing to worry about:-)

This could be the revision 2, as this is end of life apparently. The revision 3 is not as far as I am aware.
So yes there is a pandaboard that is EOL, which is what I think the panic is about…..
Nothing to see here… ;-)