Status of ESP32-P4 as of Aug '25

[nasq86]

Hello,

this is just me being confused about current status of ESP32-P4. According to the Espressif Product Selector, all ESP32-P4 SoCs are in "Mass Production" - however, this happened a little bit under the radar. They made no announcement, no fuss.

The ESP32-C5 and ESP32-C61 are all officially announced Mass Production via Espressifs website, although they entered that state later than ESP32-P4 did.

Reason I'm asking is: I want to test it out and do stuff with it. But I read that there were chip revisions not even being able to be debugged via JTAG. So I wanted to wait until Espressif publicly announces "The thing is now ready" - but what, if that never comes?

I wanted to order at Espressif directly. I know, Waveshare has a lot of new P4-DevBoards as of recently, but they are not very transparent about which chip revision is on which dev board.

Another question: A chip being mass produced I would expect to come with at least 1.0 datasheets and TRMs - neither P4, C5, nor C61 already have complete (non-preliminary) documentation. Can anyone estimate when they will be available and how stable the documents are as of now?

[dicethrow]

I would also love to see an update! Currently thinking whether to pick an S3 or a P4 for my next design.

[ahsrabrifat]

Hello,

this is just me being confused about current status of ESP32-P4. According to the Espressif Product Selector, all ESP32-P4 SoCs are in "Mass Production" - however, this happened a little bit under the radar. They made no announcement, no fuss.

The ESP32-C5 and ESP32-C61 are all officially announced Mass Production via Espressifs website, although they entered that state later than ESP32-P4 did.

Reason I'm asking is: I want to test it out and do stuff with it. But I read that there were chip revisions not even being able to be debugged via JTAG. So I wanted to wait until Espressif publicly announces "The thing is now ready" - but what, if that never comes?

I wanted to order at Espressif directly. I know, Waveshare has a lot of new P4-DevBoards as of recently, but they are not very transparent about which chip revision is on which dev board.

Another question: A chip being mass produced I would expect to come with at least 1.0 datasheets and TRMs - neither P4, C5, nor C61 already have complete (non-preliminary) documentation. Can anyone estimate when they will be available and how stable the documents are as of now?

Though the Product Selector indicates mass production, Espressif hasn't publicly confirmed this for the ESP32-P4 as they have for the C5 and C61. That means that unless Espressif issues a formal update, developers like you might remain in limbo without a clear “we’re good to go” statement.