• 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. • 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”. • “The cost of some parts has more than doubled over the last quarter. • As a result, we now need to make further increases to our own pricing, affecting all Raspberry Pi 4 and 5, and Compute Module 4 and 5, products that have 2GB or more of memory.” As well as the models mentioned above, the Raspberry Pi 500 and the 500+ see prices rises in line with the rest. • For consumers, tech tinkerers and industrial needs, this means less bang for your buck.
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