Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75.
The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99.
Despite today's date, this is not a joke.
I published a video going over the state of the hobbyist 'high end SBC' market (4/8/16 GB models in the current generation), which I'll embed below:
But if you'd like the tl;dr:
It’s killing everything that relies on having a computer inside or in-use. Say goodbye to ‘smart’ products, expanding any kind of business, cars, etc. Everything relies on some kind of DRAM these days.
Pretty of “smart” things could work with a few MCs with only builtin memory.
It’s just that 10 years ago people were complaining how nobody pays for making optimized nice things, using a computer few thousand times more powerful than needed for a job.
Well, now this may change, it’s again profitable to optimize. Or perhaps not yet.
Economic reality always changes. Tools, means, environments, markets, populations, politics, knowledge, and even goals.
So I don’t think it’s killing anything. Some producers will start optimizing. Some will cut on “smart” features nobody needs. Some will raise prices. As it always happens. Then some solutions will work and some not.
Nah. The vendors will kill their ecosystems earlier and all the established internet-of-trash will be e-waste quicker. We’re still using a portal-TV unit and loving it, for example, but so many other products brought out during the sudden rush will be killed while still on umbilical .
It’s killing everything that relies on having a computer inside or in-use. Say goodbye to ‘smart’ products, expanding any kind of business, cars, etc. Everything relies on some kind of DRAM these days.
Pretty of “smart” things could work with a few MCs with only builtin memory.
It’s just that 10 years ago people were complaining how nobody pays for making optimized nice things, using a computer few thousand times more powerful than needed for a job.
Well, now this may change, it’s again profitable to optimize. Or perhaps not yet.
Economic reality always changes. Tools, means, environments, markets, populations, politics, knowledge, and even goals.
So I don’t think it’s killing anything. Some producers will start optimizing. Some will cut on “smart” features nobody needs. Some will raise prices. As it always happens. Then some solutions will work and some not.
Silver linings?
Nah. The vendors will kill their ecosystems earlier and all the established internet-of-trash will be e-waste quicker. We’re still using a portal-TV unit and loving it, for example, but so many other products brought out during the sudden rush will be killed while still on umbilical .