Eben’s response put the Pi 6 on a 4 to 4.5-year cycle from the Pi 5 launch, meaning early 2028<\/strong> at the absolute earliest. He didn’t seem in any particular rush either, noting the Pi 5 is still a capable flagship that could comfortably hold that position beyond even that window.<\/p>\n According to him, the new SBC will essentially be a Pi 5 with better internals like a faster CPU, more I\/O, and more DRAM bandwidth. He called it “quantitative changes, not qualitative ones<\/em>,” meaning no new ports, no M.2 slot, nothing that would make the current board feel dated by comparison.<\/p>\n The timing makes a bit more sense once you look at what memory prices have been doing. In April, Raspberry Pi pushed through another round of price increases<\/a>, pointing to a seven-fold rise in LPDDR4 DRAM costs<\/strong> over the past year.<\/p>\n That announcement also introduced a 3GB Raspberry Pi 4<\/a> at $83.75<\/strong>, as a way to give prospective buyers a cheaper option between the 2GB and the now-considerably-pricier 4GB.<\/p>\n The Pi Zero 2W<\/a> is in the same boat. Eben flagged it as the only product in an actual shortage right now, with supply squeezed by AI chip demand. A new supplier has been brought on though, with expectations that stocks will recover before the year is out.<\/p>\n So for now, the Raspberry Pi 5<\/a> remains the best the lineup has to offer, at prices that would have raised eyebrows a couple of years ago.<\/p>\nThe RAM situation isn’t helping<\/h2>\n
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