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Any reason why this is the case? Chip shortages? Backing up of imports? I just noticed this the other day when looking to get a Pi 4 as a gift for my brother.

Any reason why this is the case? Chip shortages? Backing up of imports? I just noticed this the other day when looking to get a Pi 4 as a gift for my brother. It's crazy to think just a year or two ago I bought two at normal price, and now one can't find any individual boards anywhere really

geerlingguy 5y ago
Mostly the chip shortages—Raspberry Pi has pulled out all the stops but couldn't come anywhere close to meeting demand over 2021. And they even decided to focus production only on the BCM2711-based devices for the latter part of this year. They posted a blog post with some detail behind what's going on: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/supply-chain-shortages-and-our-first-ever-price-increase/ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/supply-chain-shortages-and-...