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Announced in a blog post from the Raspberry Pi team, to help soften the blow a new 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 was revealed at $45 / ~£43.20. For the prices that are increasing here's what they sent along:
| Product | Density | Old price | New price |
| Raspberry Pi 4 | 4GB | $55 | $60 |
| Raspberry Pi 4 | 8GB | $75 | $85 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 | 1GB | – | $45 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 | 2GB | $50 | $55 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 | 4GB | $60 | $70 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 | 8GB | $80 | $95 |
| Raspberry Pi 5 | 16GB | $120 | $145 |
They said the 16GB variant of the Compute Module 5 has also gone up by $20. However older lower-density Raspberry Pi models remain unchanged.
Right now the hardware industry just sucks for consumers in terms of pricing. A lot of it thanks to many companies increasing their AI workloads, sucking up all the hardware availability. You've likely seen some reports elsewhere on how 64GB of RAM is often now more expensive than an entire PlayStation 5. I checked that today and - yep, insanity. Lots of RAM completely out of stock, lots of them suggesting delivery would be in multiple months time.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Arehandoro 4 hours ago
At these prices I won't be upgrading my rig in another 5 years or so.
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I fast-tracked my planned upgrade to AM5 (previously 13600K) because of the RAM prices, I got a nice Crucial 6000-36 32GB kit for 177€, but 2 months earlier it was listed at 90. And now it's listed as 269€ on Amazon, WHAT THE F.
Anyways, I'm very happy I bought the RAM when I did. In half a year I expect 32GB of DDR5 will be a thousand euros/dollars or more.
Anyways, I'm very happy I bought the RAM when I did. In half a year I expect 32GB of DDR5 will be a thousand euros/dollars or more.
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Luckily I upgraded my RAM before rising prices.
I hope GPUs aren't next on the list...
I hope GPUs aren't next on the list...
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simplyseven 3 hours ago
Quoting: SzkodnixLuckily I upgraded my RAM before rising prices.
I hope GPUs aren't next on the list...
You know they will be. I feel akin to "Old man yells at clouds" but it really does seem like business has encroached all playtime. Third spaces should refer to public locations, not our ability to own entertaining things!
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Only we wait for quantum wireless network, so people would not buy normal PC, but only displaying device and pay subscription. Maybe world will go in this direction? I do not joke. Imagine how many resources will be preserved - only one kernel for many devices, only one code for each program loaded into memory, only one copy of constant data loaded into memory, etc.
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Quoting: StellaI fast-tracked my planned upgrade to AM5 (previously 13600K) because of the RAM prices, I got a nice Crucial 6000-36 32GB kit for 177€, but 2 months earlier it was listed at 90. And now it's listed as 269€ on Amazon, WHAT THE F.Same here, though I'm not quite happy about it. Needed to be done, managed to do it before it'd bankrupt me. So, I'm relatively stocked up, but I'm not jumping on those GPUs until enough of them melt due to 12vhpwr issues for that connector to get properly figured out or replaced. Not that AM5 boards toasting those CPUs isn't an issue, but still probably better than buying into the sinking ship that is Intel.
Anyways, I'm very happy I bought the RAM when I did. In half a year I expect 32GB of DDR5 will be a thousand euros/dollars or more.
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Quoting: LachuOnly we wait for quantum wireless network, so people would not buy normal PC, but only displaying device and pay subscription. Maybe world will go in this direction? I do not joke. Imagine how many resources will be preserved - only one kernel for many devices, only one code for each program loaded into memory, only one copy of constant data loaded into memory, etc.
Current wireless technology already massively uses quantum effects.
Also it would only worsen the base resources problem.
There is a reason why better chips often means smaller transistor distance.
The more volume a signal has to cover the more the second law of thermodynamics will get involved.
Besides that the cloud providers haven't really shown they can be trusted with, so much control over people's data(not your hardware, not your data)
Still you're probably right that this will happen.
After the end of the AI bubble, all that cloud compute infrastructure will still exist and start to compete with other cloud computing infrastructure.
This will drive down the price of cloud subscriptions. Bringing people to do more and more in the cloud.
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questioner9 23 minutes ago
I can see that the market prices are rising which is bad for consumers but on the other hand I just checked what I paid in 2016 for my stick of 16GB DDR4 2400 MT/s and it was £66 then or equivalent to £92 in today's money accounting for inflation. Even with the price hikes DDR4 is still cheaper now than 2016. Sure if I was building today I'd rather buy DDR5, but I'm not building today as I'm still very happy with my current rig so DDR4 can't be that bad.
Maybe if the AI hype crash happens prices will plummet.
Maybe if the AI hype crash happens prices will plummet.
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