Raspberry Pi Details Memory-Driven Price Increases Of Up To $60

The Raspberry Pi has been one of the most affordable ways to jump into single-board computing, but even these devices haven’t been able to avoid price increases due to the current DRAM shortage. A mere two months after announcing an initial price hike, the organization is having to raise prices yet again because of an “unprecedented rise in the cost of LPDDR4 memory.”

Founder and CEO Eben Upton pins the blame on limited availability of fab capacity that’s being driven by the “AI infrastructure roll-out.” To provide some insight as to what the company has been facing when making decisions to bump up pricing, he says that the cost of some components have doubled since the prior quarter.

The Raspberry Pi 4 and 5, in addition to the Compute Model 4 and 5, which all come equipped with 2GB or more of memory will be affected. 2GB models ...