{"id":384325,"date":"2026-04-06T07:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384325\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:16:11","slug":"raspberry-pi-price-hikes-electronics-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384325\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi price hikes | Electronics Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 16GB Pi 5 model gets a $100 hike, taking its retail price to $305. It originally cost $120, but a $25 hike in December took the cost up to $145. After a February increase, it was $205.<\/p>\n<p>The 4GB models have gone up by $25, and the 8GB models have increased by $50.<\/p>\n<p>The Pi 500+ has gone up $150.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/price-increases-for-pi-4-and-pi-5-models_kvbb.png\"  alt=\"\"\/>(Credit: Raspberry Pi)<\/p>\n<p>Some older models, including the Raspberry Pi 1, 3, 3B+, and 3A+, aren\u2019t affected.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-887445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Raspberry-Pi-AI-HAT-2-lo-res-1024x686-crop-150x150.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"  \/>\u201cThese products use older LPDDR2 DRAM, of which we currently hold substantial inventory,\u201d says CEO Eben Upton.<\/p>\n<p>Raspberry Pi introduced a new 3GB variant for the Pi 4 at $83.75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 16GB Pi 5 model gets a $100 hike, taking its retail price to $305. It originally cost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-384325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}