{"id":577093,"date":"2026-04-02T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577093\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:20:13","slug":"these-raspberry-pi-price-hikes-are-no-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577093\/","title":{"rendered":"These Raspberry Pi price hikes are no joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">As of today, the price of the 16GB version of the Raspberry Pi 5 is going up by $100, a price bump that\u2019s almost as much as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.com\/news\/16gb-raspberry-pi-5-on-sale-now-at-120\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">original $120 price<\/a> tag. Driven by the ongoing RAM shortage, Raspberry Pi is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.com\/news\/a-new-3gb-raspberry-pi-4-for-83-75-and-more-memory-driven-price-increases\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raising prices<\/a> on over a dozen of its bare-bones computers, after previous increases in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/836221\/raspberry-pi-price-increases-ram-costs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/872393\/raspberry-pi-price-increase-ram-shortage-costs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February<\/a>. The increases range from $11.25 to $150.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In a blog post announcing the price increases, Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton reiterated that they won\u2019t be permanent, stating, \u201cThe circumstances in which we find ourselves are challenging, but in the future they will abate. When they do, we will reverse our price increases, and until they do, we will continue to work hard to limit their impact in every way we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">To potentially soften the blow of the price hikes, Raspberry Pi also announced a new version of the Raspberry Pi 4 with 3GB of RAM available starting today, priced at $83.75. Raspberry Pi models with 4GB or more of memory have been impacted the most by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/839353\/pc-ram-shortage-pricing-spike-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">memory price surges<\/a>. Upton also notes that it\u2019s not an April Fools\u2019 stunt, adding, \u201cNotwithstanding today\u2019s date, our new computer is as real as the rest of our products.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of today, the price of the 16GB version of the Raspberry Pi 5 is going up by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,195,44,64,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-577093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}