Raspberry Pi prices hiked as AI gobbles all the memory

Raspberry Pi is upping the cost of some devices by double-digit percentages from today driven by what CEO Eben Upton calls "insatiable demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI applications."

Even though the company entered the year with substantial stockpiles of memory, Upton said the time had come "to pass some of this cost on."

"At this point, memory costs roughly 120 percent more than it did a year ago," Upton said today, which makes the company's stockpiling look like a canny move.

The 4 GB Compute Module 4 and Compute Module 5 have gone up by $5 or 11 percent to $50, and the 8 GB variants have risen 12 percent to $95. Raspberry Pi 500 customers can now expect to pay $100 rather than $90, and the Raspberry Pi Development Kit for Compute Module 5 has risen $5 to $135.

As far as the Compute Module 4 ...