DRAM it! Raspberry Pi raises prices

The 16GB mentation of the Raspberry Pi 5 (pictured) has jumped from $120 to $145.

Raspberry Pi is expanding the terms of respective single-board computers successful an effort to offset soaring representation costs. The updates are being applied instantly and impact Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5, with prices expanding by $5 to $25 depending connected the exemplary and magnitude of RAM. The 16GB representation variants of the Compute Module 5 are besides being raised by $20, present starting astatine $140.

“The existent unit connected representation prices, driven by contention from the AI infrastructure roll-out, is achy but yet temporary,” Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton said successful the announcement. “We stay committed to driving down the outgo of computing and look guardant to unwinding these terms increases erstwhile it abates.”

An affordable caller 1GB variant of Raspberry Pi’s flagship 5 exemplary is besides being introduced for $45, which includes a quad-core 2.4GHz Arm Cortex-A76 processor, dual-band Wi-Fi, and a PCI Express port.

Raspberry Pi isn’t the lone computing hardware supplier feeling the pinch, with CyberPowerPC and Maingear having besides addressed however the skyrocketing terms of RAM is impacting their business, with terms increases either already successful spot oregon expected successful the future. The constricted proviso and precocious request for RAM has led to immoderate stores selling it astatine marketplace prices, conscionable arsenic the out-of-control GPU prices from earlier this twelvemonth had yet started to settee down.