No, a company that makes competing single-board computers claimed that Chip will have to go up in price to $39 after the Kickstarter. The actual manufacturer never said it's going up in price, and I doubt it'll cost anywhere near that much because it wouldn't be competitive. The higher-end Orange Pi PC is currently selling for $15 with a quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 4K video decode in hardware, and Ethernet and HDMI out: http://hackaday.com/2015/09/05/orange-is-the-new-15-pi/ (No onboard WiFi or Bluetooth on that, but there's plenty of free USB ports to plug an adapter into.)
> a company that makes competing single-board computers
Allwinner aren't CHIP's competitors - they're their suppliers! However CHIP have claimed that it will stay at $9:
http://bbs.nextthing.co/t/final-price-of-c-h-i-p-ntc-confirm...
Re:The $9 CHIP Computer Is Shipping
by akhilcacharya on Thursday September 24, 2015 @05:57PM
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Not everybody is looking to replace an RPi. I like it because I want a networked headless computer.
https://olimex.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/how-to-get-in-the-ne...