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Driven by the global surge in AI-infrastructure expansion, soaring demand for memory has tightened supply chains across the industry. Raspberry Pi has now announced immediate price increases for several of its products, affecting select models of the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5, with adjustments ranging from $5 to $25.
In an official blog post, Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton explained that the current pricing pressure on memory is primarily the result of intensified competition from AI-infrastructure builders. He emphasized, however, that once prices stabilize, the company expects to roll back these increases, describing the situation as “temporary.”
According to the published pricing list, models with larger memory configurations face the steepest hikes:
- Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB): from $120 to $145 (+$25)
- Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB): from $80 to $95 (+$15)
- Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB / 8GB): increases of $5 and $10, respectively
In addition, the industrial-grade Compute Module 5 (16GB) has risen by $20, now starting at $140.
Despite the upward adjustments, Raspberry Pi simultaneously announced a new entry-level model: the 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, priced at just $45, making it the most affordable gateway into the Pi 5 lineup.
This new budget-friendly option retains the core specifications: a quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 CPU running at 2.4 GHz, dual-band Wi-Fi, and a PCI Express slot. For lightweight projects with modest memory requirements, it offers the most economical way to experience the performance of the Raspberry Pi 5.
Eben Upton further explained that the voracious appetite of AI applications for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is straining production capacity for the LPDDR memory used in Raspberry Pi devices, driving costs sharply upward. This reflects a broader industry reality: AI demand is vacuuming up global supplies of memory and GPUs, pushing hardware costs higher even in sectors far removed from advanced AI workloads.
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