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:
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.
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.