Raspberry Pi Raises Prices Up to $150, Blaming AI-Driven Memory Cost Surge

Raspberry Pi has raised prices across its product line by between $11.25 and $150 per unit, citing higher memory costs following multiple price hikes since December, The Verge reported Wednesday, in a visible example of how AI infrastructure demand is rippling through the broader consumer electronics supply chain. The increases reflect a sharp rise in DRAM and NAND memory prices driven by surging demand from AI data center operators, who are consuming memory at a pace that has outstripped supply. Analyst forecasts cited earlier this week projected DRAM prices to jump 63 percent in the second quarter of 2026, following rises of up to 95 percent in the first quarter. Raspberry Pi, whose low-cost single-board computers are widely used by hobbyists, educators, and embedded systems developers, is an unusual casualty of the AI boom. The company's products use commodity memory components that compete in the same supply markets as the high-bandwidth memory used in Nvidia's AI accelerators, putting downward pressure on availability and upward pressure on prices even for devices with no AI function. Among the new prices: the 16GB version of a Raspberry Pi model rises by over $100, and a new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 will retail at $83.75. The Verge's reporting quoted a source characterizing the memory price environment as driven by "those AI fools," reflecting frustration in the maker and embedded computing community at spillover costs from the AI infrastructure buildout. The price increases are the third round since December and signal that memory market pressures are not yet easing. The Verge reported the changes on April 1, 2026.