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1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises

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Re: 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises

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Post by ta9000 »

Tepix wrote: post #80

The article mentions " the $10 Raspberry Pi Zero ". I feel this is rewriting history. The Raspberry Pi Zero was $5 when it was released back in 2015. It was mostly out of stock, but I did manage to get one unit at that price eventually. Nowadays you can no longer get the Raspberrry Pi Zero for less than 12€ or so. I consider the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero to be among the best values on the market and there hasn't been anyt…

$5 in 2015 is worth $7 in 2025 dollars. Combine that with higher memory prices and overall increases in supply chain costs/tariffs, and I really don’t see $10 as being that bad.

Re: 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises

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Post by re-thc »

pvdebbe wrote: post #42
okokwhatever wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stock price does not say the same :'(

Oh, you think it's undervalued?

If you believe the US government will reopen the door to China sales, then yes. Highly rumored to be a thing soon.

Re: 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises

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Post by re-thc »

PunchyHamster wrote: post #58
okokwhatever wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stock price does not say the same :'(

can't just make a new fab in a year and capitalise on spike, and most big investors in it know it.

They "can". It happened during COVID and they got trapped by it so they're not taking the bite anymore.

Re: 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises

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Post by Workaccount2 »

dagmx wrote: post #79
linguae wrote: post #16

It’s sad to see the one area of life that has long resisted inflation (computing) now succumb to inflationary forces. Other than emergency situations such as COVID-19, I’m used to seeing prices going down over time for computers and their components. It’s one of the rare bright spots when everything else is escalating in price, and now that’s disappearing.

Firstly, this is not due to inflation. The price increase is explicitly (per the article even) due to increased market demand that is causing raised prices. Secondly, Computing has always been subject to inflation. It cannot escape inflation. You may not notice it , perhaps due to the increase in performance but the cost of parts definitely has risen in the same tiers if you look over a long enough period to avoid pr…

Inflation simply refers to the rate at which prices are increasing. It's agnostic as to the origin ( any single/combo of demand increase, supply shortage, money printing, price fixing, etc).

Re: 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises

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Post by Workaccount2 »

aynyc wrote: post #69

I don't really blame them, but my question is, if ram price goes down, will RPI drop its prices? My experience with other companies is no.

Price is an optimization problem, if you raise prices and profits increase, your product was likley too cheap. If you raise prices and profits decrease ("lol I'm not paying $XYZ for an rpi when the clone is $ABC") you are charging too much.

There are myriad other factors that go into this, especially just general inflation, which will likely fill the price gap by the time memory costs go down anyway.

Re: 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises

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Post by duskwuff »

jsheard wrote: post #37
Oxodao wrote: post #34

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Even DDR4. Just checked, I bought a non-ECC 1x32go stick for my homelab on August 25th, priced 78€ on Amazon. Same offer is now at 229€. Yeah I guess I'll wait before updating to 64gig then

I don't think DDR4 is even being manufactured anymore, so the rush is clearing out that inventory for good.

It is still being manufactured. Older memory standards continue to be manufactured long after they stop being used in computers, e.g. for use in embedded devices.

Re: 1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises

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Post by hylaride »

Majromax wrote: post #33
officialchicken wrote: post #26

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Good point! But they are slightly more energy hungry. At these scales I wonder if Stargate could go with one less nuclear reactor simply by switching to non-ECC RAM

Penny-wise and pound foolish. Non-ECC RAM might save on the small amount of RAM power, but if a bit-flip causes a failed computation then an entire forwards/backwards step – possibly involving several nodes – might need to be redone.

Linus Torvalds was recently on Linux Tech Tips to build a new computer and he insisted on ECC RAM. Torvalds was convinced that memory errors are a much greater problem for stability than otherwise posted and he's spent an inordinate amount of time chasing phantom bugs because of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA

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