Raspberry Pi price hike means it's now 70% costlier than pre-RAM crisis — but there's promising DDR5 news at least

• DDR5 RAM pricing appears to have plateaued in Germany
• That's very different from the past few months of huge price leaps
• At the same time, analyst firms are forecasting major price hikes are still to come, and PCs are feeling the knock-on effects – the Raspberry Pi being the latest victim

There's a hopeful sign that the RAM crisis might be stalling, but don't put too much stock in this idea just yet – especially as we're still hearing about major price hikes for memory, and also PCs, the latest of which is a big leap in cost for the compact Raspberry Pi computer board.

I'll come back to the Raspberry Pi pricing (flagged by Tom's Hardware) later, but first off, let's focus on the better news from the memory market. VideoCardz spotted that German tech site 3D Center, which ...