When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385

Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by orthogonal_cube on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:56PM (#50428995)

The disruption to consumer electronics, both PCs and SBCs, will last for several years at minimum

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by vannevar on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:36PM (#50429597)

I think we'll see prices crash within 12 months, because I don't think the data center bubble will last that long.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by mxuribe on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:50PM (#50429795)

[delayed]

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by tete on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:54PM (#50429872)

Same. Also because the margins are so high due to competition on the buyer side, bottlenecked by production which will continue to increase until there can be price competition on the producer side again.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by airspresso on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:59PM (#50429978)

That's cope. We might get a small dip, just like we saw in stocks. Inventing machine intelligence unlocks a lot of automation and innovation. Any data centers the labs and hyperscalers manage to get online the next few years will get filled by demand.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by otabdeveloper4 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:27PM (#50430472)

> Inventing machine intelligence unlocks a lot of automation and innovation.

That a good point. Let's hope the RAM hoarding will eventually get us that and not bullshitting hallucination machines.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by tmcb on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:45PM (#50430813)

The first real problem machine intelligence companies could solve for their own good is how to avoid the current bottleneck in compute. Until then they are as subject to usual market behavior as much as any other kind of business out there.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by onion2k on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:52PM (#50431943)

I think we'll see prices crash within 12 months, because I don't think the data center bubble will last that long.

Market bubbles bursting doesn't lead to consumer price drops. The reduced demand from data centres will lead to a reduction in manufacturing rather a lower price.

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by BeFlatXIII on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:45PM (#50432694)

[delayed]

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Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell... by kristopolous on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:46PM (#50433387)

There's not enough market competition and too much collusion for the prices to move.

There's no substitution good here.

Why would they ever voluntarily lower prices? They've price fixed multiple times.

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