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Open Hardware: RAM-flation Impacts Raspberry Pi and "Meet the Garbage PC"
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The Register UK ☛ Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60
That slice of Pi is getting much more expensive. Everyone’s favorite single-board computer, the Raspberry Pi, is jumping up in price again, with increases ranging from $10 to $60, depending on how much memory your board has.
After boosting prices in December due to rising memory costs, Raspberry Pi has moved to do so again as LPDDR4 memory prices continue to climb, driven by competition for manufacturing capacity from the AI infrastructure roll-out. The increases apply to most hardware built on its Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 platforms, including the CM4 and CM5 compute modules and the Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi 500+ keyboard PCs.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Raspberry Pi prices are rising again by up to $60 | GamingOnLinux
It's not a good time to be buying anything computer related right now, and the Raspberry Pi team just upped their prices for the second time recently.
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Herman Õunapuu ☛ Meet the Garbage PC
Not too long ago, I received a half-broken Dell Inspiron N5110, sporting 6 GB of RAM, a dual core Intel i3-2110M, and an unsupported NVIDIA GPU of some sort.
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Ouch – the Raspberry Pi just got more expensive (again)
Raspberry Pi has announced further price hikes for its single-board computers, increasing the cost of its some models by as much as $60.
The latest increases are on top of the those it announced late last year for certain memory capacity models of its Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 SBCs.
Why the rise? It’s not to goose any bottom lines but what the company describes as an “unprecedented rise in the cost of LPDDR4 memory, thanks to competition for memory fab capacity from the AI infrastructure roll-out”.
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Raspberry Pi 5 price increases drastically as AI shortage bites, 16GB version now $205 — second price increase in three months, over 70% more expensive than original MSRP
Writing in an official blog post, Raspberry Pi co-founder and CEO Eben Upton shared the bad news that price rises have accelerated and the cost of some parts has more than doubled over the last quarter. That means that the current flagship Raspberry Pi 5 and the older flagship Raspberry Pi 4, along with their Compute Module variants with 2GB or more memory, are seeing up to a $60 price increase, on top of the previous increases.