Raspberry Pi extends memory-driven price rises to 16GB products
The memory shortage has reached Raspberry Pi's highest-capacity products. The company calls the increases temporary, but gives no timetable for reversing them.
Raspberry Pi has raised the price of its 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 by $80 to $385. Every 16GB Compute Module 5 variant has risen by $40, while the Raspberry Pi 500+ price is unchanged. Announcing the changes on 2 November, the company said it lacks an alternative source for the 16GB memory component and is also facing broader memory shortages.
This widens the pressure seen a month earlier. On 1 October, Raspberry Pi increased the prices of the 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 by $12.50, while Compute Module prices were unchanged. The latest move therefore reaches both the highest-capacity board and industrial modules that customers can build into their own products.
Raspberry Pi describes the increases as temporary and says it intends to reverse them when memory prices fall. That commitment matters, but it has not given a timetable. The announcement also does not disclose the affected volumes, memory cost increase, customer response or expected effect on revenue and profit.
The decision shows that memory supply is now influencing a broader part of Raspberry Pi's product range, not just entry-level boards. Higher prices may help absorb component costs, but they can also cause customers to reduce memory specifications or reconsider designs. The next useful evidence will be memory availability, any price rollback, the sales mix between capacities and the effect on margins in the next results.
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