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The Raspberry Pi Foundation's most affordable board is no longer sheltered from memory-market turbulence. The Raspberry Pi 5 2GB is moving to $77.50 USD, up from $60, an increase of roughly 29%. According to reporting from Phoronix, it marks the first time the foundation's entry-level single-board computer (SBC) tier has been caught by the DRAM squeeze it had previously ridden out.
When Raspberry Pi boards last absorbed memory-driven price rises, the 1GB and 2GB variants were deliberately kept where they were. This time, as Phoronix reports, founder Eben Upton has described memory pricing as "unsustainable" — and the Raspberry Pi 5 2GB now faces a steep increase of its own.
What the figures do and don't tell us
Two qualifications matter here. The first is scope: the reporting identifies the Raspberry Pi 5 2GB as the one being repriced. What happens to the 1GB variant — whether it is marked up, held steady, or quietly retired from the line — is not stated, and buyers and educators should check the official Raspberry Pi store and reseller listings rather than assume the entry-level tier has moved in step.
The second is the basis of the numbers themselves. Both $60 and $77.50 are official USD list prices — the manufacturer's suggested retail figures, not any distributor's out-the-door price. No precise effective date has been specified in the source, and regional pricing varies considerably: distributors typically set local prices against demand, shipping and tax rather than mirroring the US figure exactly. Read those two dollar amounts as reference points for the size of the increase, not as a promise of what any given storefront will charge.
On Upton's explanation, it pays to stay precise: he attributes the decision primarily to memory costs, not to component inflation across the board, import tariffs, or softer demand.
The arithmetic that matters in classrooms
At prevailing exchange rates, the old $60 band worked out at roughly HK$470, while the new figure lands nearer HK$605 — an indicative local-currency difference of about HK$135 per unit at distributor list levels. Actual Hong Kong retail and wholesale prices will vary by reseller, and by whether stock is current-generation or carried over from earlier production runs.
That gap looks modest in isolation and becomes significant in volume. The Raspberry Pi 5 2GB has long been the default choice for school and university programmes: classroom sets of ten or twenty boards, maker-space fleets, and competition kits built around a fixed per-seat budget. A step of nearly 30% on the anchor SKU forces every procurement spreadsheet to be redrawn at once. Programmes that once treated a Pi as an effectively disposable consumable may now buy fewer units, stretch existing inventories, or turn to used-market boards — the same substitution pattern seen in other electronics shortages.
It is also an inflection point in how the Foundation positions its product line. For years, keeping the cheapest models flat through memory cycles was treated as a deliberate commitment to accessibility. Once that buffer comes off, the low-end tier is exposed to the same volatility as the rest of the DRAM market.
The wider DRAM signal
The Pi repricing is best read as a retail symptom of a much larger trend. The same memory-cost pressures inflating an SBC's bill of materials are tightening DRAM pricing across data-centre and workstation markets, where AI training and inference workloads are competing aggressively for capacity — an effect already visible in enterprise server quotes, GPU-accelerated appliance pricing, and increasingly in laptop and desktop component costs. When a foundation with genuine supply-chain leverage can no longer absorb memory inflation, that says as much about how tight the broader DRAM market has become as it does about one small computer.
Anyone who needs boards at the old price point should verify current stock and pricing with authorised distributors before committing programme budgets — and keep an eye on the 1GB model, which remains the open question in this announcement.
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Raspberry Pi 基金會最低價的開發板，已無法再隔絕於記憶體市場的動盪之外。Raspberry Pi 5 2GB 版本售價將由 $60 美元調升至 $77.50 美元，漲幅約 29%。根據 Phoronix 的報導，這是基金會入門級單板電腦（SBC）產品線首次被 DRAM 供應緊絀所波及——此前它一直能安然度過。
回顧上一輪由記憶體價格推動的 Raspberry Pi 加價潮，1GB 及 2GB 版本當時被刻意維持原價。今次，正如 Phoronix 報導所引述，基金會創辦人 Eben Upton 表示記憶體定價已變得「unsustainable」（難以為繼）——Raspberry Pi 5 2GB 亦因此需要大幅加價。
這些數字說明了甚麼，又未能說明甚麼
有兩點須要留意。第一是影響範圍：報導明確指 Raspberry Pi 5 2GB 是被加價的型號。至於 1GB 版本的命運——加價、維持原價，抑或悄然淡出產品線——來源並未交代。買家及教育工作者應向 Raspberry Pi 官方商店或經銷商查證最新價目，而不應假設入門級型號亦同步調整。
第二是數字本身的基礎。$60 及 $77.50 均為美元官方定價，即廠商建議零售價，並非任何經銷商的實際售價。來源未有指出生效日期，各地定價亦存在相當差異：經銷商通常會按需求、運費及稅務自行釐定本地售價，而非原封不動照搬美國定價。宜將這兩個美元金額視為加幅的參考指標，而非任何特定零售商保證收取的價錢。
至於 Upton 的解釋，措辭必須準確：他將決定主要歸因於記憶體成本，而非整體組件價格上升、進口關稅，或需求疲軟等因素。
課堂裏的算術
按現時匯率換算，舊有 $60 美元價格帶約折合 HK$470，新價則接近 HK$605，即每部約有 HK$135 的價差——此乃參考經銷商定價的港元換算數字。實際香港零售及批發價格會因經銷商而異，亦視乎存貨屬新一代產品抑或早期批次的結轉。
這個差距單看一部似嫌有限，但累積起來便相當可觀。Raspberry Pi 5 2GB 一直是學校及大學採購的首選：十至二十部一組的課堂套裝、Maker 空間（創客空間）的裝備集群，以及以每席位預算為基礎的競賽工具包。在這個主力型號上接近 30% 的加幅，會同時動搖所有採購預算表。過去將 Raspberry Pi 視為近乎即棄消耗品的計劃，現在可能要減少採購數量、延長現有設備壽命，或轉向二手市場尋找開發板——這與其他電子產品短缺時的替代模式如出一轍。
這亦是基金會產品線定位的轉折點。多年來，在記憶體週期中維持最低價型號原價，一直被視為對可及性的明確承諾。這道保護一旦撤去，入門級產品線便直接暴露於 DRAM 市場的波動之中。
DRAM 大局的訊號
Raspberry Pi 加價，宜視為更大趨勢的零售端症狀。推高 SBC 物料成本的同一股記憶體漲價壓力，正同時收緊資料中心及工作站市場的 DRAM 定價——AI 訓練及推理工作負載正激烈爭奪產能，這效應已見於企業伺服器報價、GPU 加速設備的定價，以及逐漸蔓延至手提電腦及桌上電腦的零件成本。當一家擁有實際供應鏈議價能力的基金會亦無法再消化記憶體通脹時，這既反映了廣義 DRAM 市場的緊張程度，亦反映了不止一部小型電腦的價格問題。
需要在舊價位採購開發板的用戶，宜在落實預算前向授權經銷商查證現時存貨及售價；同時留意 1GB 型號——它是今次公告中仍然懸而未決的問題。