It’s been an incredible year for open source hardware development in the Framework ecosystem. To enable new types of projects, we just launched a developer program around the One Key Module that enables creation of custom keyboards for Framework Laptop 16. With even more open source CAD, code, and documentation in our GitHub repositories, we’ve seen some wild projects and products, including an Oculink Expansion Bay Module, a set of MIDI keyboard Input Modules, a RISC-V Expansion Card, a custom chassis with integrated mechanical keyboard, and much more. You can browse through the Creators & Developers section of our forum to see just how creative and capable the community is.

There are some challenges on the horizon though. We’re contending with what may become the most significant industry-wide supply crunch in years with memory, storage, and overall silicon demand vastly exceeding production output. We’ve had to increase pricing on some items to cover substantial increases in costs from our suppliers, and further cost and price increases are highly likely over the next months. Our product philosophy works well in this volatile environment, with the flexibility to bring your own memory and storage on DIY Edition laptops and add more in the future when prices go back down. For the moment, our memory pricing on both laptops and Framework Desktop is below market, with the 128GB configuration of Framework Desktop being a relative bargain. Our priority during this silicon crunch is to be transparent throughout, to only increase pricing when needed to account for higher costs, and to reduce prices as soon as costs come back down.

It’s been a big year. We extended the longevity of Framework Laptop 13 with a seventh iteration, entered two new categories with Framework Laptop 12 and Framework Desktop, lived up to the promise of upgradeable graphics with the new Framework Laptop 16, and more. This was by far the largest number of systems we’ve manufactured and shipped in a year, which means even more of you are moving from closed, disposable computers to repairable, long-lasting ones. With all of this, the biggest year is always still ahead of us. We have some extremely ambitious plans for next year, and it’s never been clearer that we’re going to accomplish our mission and fix a broken industry together.