Raspberry Pi 4 3GB launched for $83.75, further price increases announced across the board for 4GB+ RAM hardware

This may sound like an April Fool’s joke, but the Raspberry Pi 4 with 3GB RAM is real and now offered for $83.75. Raspberry Pi also announced another round of price increase for Raspberry Pi 4/5/CM4/CM5 due to a “seven-fold increase over the last year in the price of [the] LPDDR4 DRAM“. As far as I know, 3GB LPDDR4 chips do NOT exist or are very rare, so the new SBC likely relies on the Raspberry Pi 4 dual RAM PCB variant introduced last month, and features two 1.5GB LPDDR4 chips for a total of 3GB of RAM. Apart from the memory capacity, nothing else changes. If you are still skeptical, you’ll find the Raspberry Pi 4 3GB listed on the product page and on resellers such as Robu (India) and RaspberryPi.dk. It’s also not the first SBC with 3GB of RAM around, since Orange Pi 4 LTS was introduced [...]
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