The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 got another 'unavoidable' RAM price hike

What BBN said about it

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe sixteen gigabyte Raspberry Pi 5 now costs three hundred eighty-five dollars, after an eighty dollar increase. It launched at a hundred and twenty.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTriple the launch price, for the computer people bought because it was cheap.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Verge reports it's the latest in a string of hikes, all blamed on the RAM shortage.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn April, a hundred dollar increase took it to three hundred and five.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNo other supplier for that memory chip, the company says. So the haggling is quick. There isn't any.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe Compute Module versions rise forty dollars too, to between three hundred seventy-five and four hundred fifteen.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHobbyists build a robot lawnmower with these. Now the lawnmower costs less than the brain.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorChief executive Eben Upton says memory prices won't stay at their current very high level indefinitely.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSamsung projected on October twenty-ninth that the shortage lasts until at least twenty twenty-eight.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIndefinitely. Two years is not indefinitely, and I'd like that written down.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFor once, Dale, I agree with you.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRight. Well. That's unsettling.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe company also warns that some resellers are charging inflated prices, and points buyers to its approved list.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt's a credit card sized computer, and it now costs what a decent laptop used to.