Raspberry Pi Basis
Pandemic-driven provide chain issues have prompted the first-ever worth improve for a Raspberry Pi product, according to Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton. Acknowledging that the 2GB configuration of the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Raspberry Pi Zero had been significantly hard-hit by shortages, Upton introduced that the worth of the 2GB Pi 4 would improve from $35 to $45 and {that a} beforehand discontinued model of the Pi 4 with 1GB of RAM could be reintroduced at $35.
The worth improve for the 2GB Pi 4 and reintroduction of the 1GB mannequin primarily reverts the Pi 4 lineup to the place it was again in February of 2020, when the Pi Basis minimize the worth of the 2GB Pi 4 from $45 to $35, a worth minimize that it mentioned was “everlasting” on the time. The March 2020 situation of the official Raspberry Pi Journal (PDF) mentioned that the 1GB mannequin had been “retired.”
Upton expressed hope that the worth improve could be “momentary” and mentioned that “we see early indicators that the provision chain state of affairs is beginning to ease.”
“These modifications in pricing should not right here to remain,” Upton wrote. “As international provide chain points average, we’ll preserve revisiting this situation, and we wish to get pricing again to the place it was as quick as we are able to.”
Shortages of 40 nm chips additionally imply that the older Raspberry Pi 3B+ is being “deprioritized” in favor of different Raspberry Pi 3 variants; the corporate retains manufacturing older merchandise primarily for “industrial and embedded” clients who want to make use of particular Pi boards for prolonged intervals of time. Upton recommends that in the long run, clients who depend on the Pi 3B+ plan emigrate to the 1GB model of the Pi 4.
