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PayPalIt's not a good time to be buying anything computer related right now, and the Raspberry Pi team just upped their prices for the second time recently.
And again we have AI companies to thank for this, as they keep sucking up everything they can to keep on powering their servers and we consumers end up paying more for just the basics just to build a computer. The AI bubble will eventually see a big pop, we just have to be patient.
The price increases as detailed by the RPi team in a blog post for the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5, along with the Compute Module 4 and 5 are:
| Memory density | Price increase |
| 1GB | – |
| 2GB | $10 |
| 4GB | $15 |
| 8GB | $30 |
| 16GB | $60 |
The prices for the Raspberry Pi 500 and 500+ are also affected but not the Raspberry Pi 400 which stays at $60. Nice to see the 1GB products haven't been affected too. As for other products like the Raspberry Pi Zero, Raspberry Pi 3 and older they said no price rises there as they have "several years’ inventory of the LPDDR2 memory that they use".
Ending the blog post the RPi team noted how 2026 will be "another challenging year for memory pricing" but the situation "is ultimately a temporary one, and we look forward to unwinding these price increases once it abates".
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Last edited by Tethys84 on 2 Feb 2026 at 11:40 am UTC
Arehandoro 2 hours ago
Quoting: suchHardware will be the least of our concerns when this bubble bursts.As long as I can get shelled roasted sunflower seeds to sit on a bench and look at rich people jump from big buildings, I'll be alright.
Johnologue 2 hours ago
In what way? AFAIK, the new fabs are all just going to churn out more high-bandwidth memory that's too expensive for consumers (and inherently so, because it replaces PCB elements with semiconductors; it won't become economical when the AI bidding/hoarding wars end).
DDR4 production is ending, DDR5 production is limited, apparently Micron will be "helping consumers" by supplying companies that make finished computers instead of making RAM consumers can actually buy...trickle-down RAM.
The future price of RAM is based on the price of unwanted Copilot Plus PCs people can harvest for memory.
That's an exaggeration, but I can't tell by how much...
Quoting: ArehandoroI'm afraid it's not the rich who will be jumping at that stage.Quoting: suchHardware will be the least of our concerns when this bubble bursts.As long as I can get shelled roasted sunflower seeds to sit on a bench and look at rich people jump from big buildings, I'll be alright.
Quoting: Tethys84Theres going to be a massive flood of hardware being dumped onto the 2nd hand market when the bubble bursts and the companies are liquidating....or will hold hardware for decade till obsolescence, dump/shred/brake so only for electronics waste/recycling...
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