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Raspberry Pi Raises Prices As Much As $60 Due To Memory Demand

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Last year [1]Raspberry Pi announced price increases due to memory demand . Today they have announced another round of increased prices as a result of the memory shortages going on industry-wide.

Raspberry Pi is having to raise prices once again due to memory prices continuing to soar in 2026. This affects all their Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 and Compute Module 4 and 5 products with at least 2GB of memory. At least for the Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi 3 they still have "several years' inventory" of the LPDDR2 used there.

The latest price increases is $10 for 2GB memory density, $15 for 4GB, $30 for 8GB, and $60 for 16GB of memory on their Raspberry Pi 4/5 products.

More details for those interested over at [2]RaspberryPi.com .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-Price-RAM-Demand

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/



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JOHN SPLADDEN: Hi, and welcome to the first annual Nerd Bowl in sunny
Silicon Valley.

BRYANT DUMBELL: We're coming to you live from the Transmeta Dome to watch
the battle between the North Carolina Mad Hatters and the Michigan
Portalbacks as they compete for the coveted Linus Torvalds Trophy.

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sponsored by Linux distributor Red Hat -- have been on fire the past
month. But the Andover.Net sponsored Michigan Portalbacks are on a tear as
well, thanks in part to the stellar performance of Rob "Taco Boy" Malda.

DUMBELL: Taco Boy is quite a star, John. Last week at the Kernelbowl he
blew away the Transmeta Secret Agents when he scored 51 points
singlehandedly in the Flying CompactDiscus round.

SPLADDEN: But then Mad Hatter's Alan Cox was voted this season's Most
Valuable Hacker in the Eastern Division. So, this game is going to be
quite a show.