A number of factors have combined to create the Raspberry Pi shortage, including the allocation of limited chip manufacturing capacity to larger players and shipping issues caused by supply chain bottlenecks.21 Dec 2021
Why are Raspberry Pi's so expensive now?
Due to supply shortages, the Raspberry Pi Foundation can no longer afford to produce them at that price, and so have had to increase the price to $45. To help mitigate this price increase, the company is reintroducing the 1GB version of the RPi 4, which was retired in February 2020.22 Oct 2021
Is Raspberry Pi successful?
The Raspberry Pi's success defied expectations. Conceived as an affordable computer for getting kids to learn how to code, its creators thought they'd sell 1,000 they've now sold more than 40 million. In March 2020 alone, the company shipped a staggering 640,000 units — its second-highest sales month on record.24 Dec 2021
Why are all Raspberry Pi sold out?
A mixture of high demand, low cost and limited manufacturing runs means that supplies are often snapped as soon as they go on sale. The Raspberry Pi 400, which sees a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB in a keyboard chassis seems to come off relatively unscathed, with stock levels appearing consistent, if a little constrained.21 Dec 2021
Is Raspberry Pi discontinued?
The Raspberry Pi Zero and Zero W have 512 MB of RAM. The Raspberry Pi 4 is available with 2, 4 or 8 GB of RAM. A 1 GB model was originally available at launch in June 2019 but was discontinued in March 2020, and the 8 GB model was introduced in May 2020.
Why are Raspberry Pi prices so high?
Due to supply shortages, the Raspberry Pi Foundation can no longer afford to produce them at that price, and so have had to increase the price to $45. The price to fabricate a chip has reportedly been increasing as of late, in a large part due to the ongoing chip supply crisis.22 Oct 2021
Is there a new Raspberry Pi coming?
Tom's Hardware suggests that the Pi 4A could arrive in 2022, possibly alongside an updated Raspberry Pi touchscreen. The Pi Foundation has been selling the current 480p and 7-inch model for over half a decade, for whatever reason.21 Jul 2021
Is there a Raspberry Pi shortage 2021?
Raspberry Pi shortages This state of affairs forced Raspberry Pi to limit production to seven million units for 2021 and implement its first ever price hike, which saw the cost of the 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 rise from $35 to $45.21 Dec 2021
Are Raspberry Pis affected by chip shortage?
At Raspberry Pi, we are not immune to this. The result has been a shortage of some products, notably Raspberry Pi Zero and the 2GB variant of Raspberry Pi 4. We're now expecting our supply chain challenges to continue through much of 2022.20 Oct 2021
Is it worth buying Raspberry Pi?
The $55 4 GB model is a worthwhile upgrade for anyone looking to use the Raspberry Pi as a desktop computer, for machine learning projects, robotics, or a web server. Most people can skip the $75 8 GB model unless you want to run virtual machines or a database server.5 Nov 2021
Is the Raspberry Pi 4 worth it?
Performance is good enough for most purposes, and while you can happily run most software you shouldn't expert performance. The quad-core ARM Cortex A72 SoC is clocked at 1.5GHz, and in our tests an 8GB Pi 4 achieved a single core score of 183 and a multi core score of 576 with the beta ARMv7 builds of Geekbench 5.11 Jun 2021