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The ongoing AI-fueled shortages of memory and storage chips has hit RAM kits and SSDs for PC builders the fastest and hardest, meaning it’s likely that, for other products that use these chips, we’ll be seeing price hikes for the entire rest of the year, if not for longer.

The latest price hike news comes courtesy of Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton, who announced today that the company would be raising prices on most of its single-board computers for the second time in two months.

Prices are going up for all Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 boards with 2GB of more of LPDDR4 RAM, including the Compute Module 4 and 5 and the Raspberry Pi 500 computer-inside-a-keyboard. The 2GB boards’ pricing will go up by $10, 4GB boards will go up by $15, 8GB boards will go up by $30, and 16GB boards will increase by a whopping $60.

These increases stack on top of across-the-board $5 to $15 price hikes implemented for most Pi 4 and 5 models in December, and a handful of more contained price hikes for select models in early October. The 16GB version of the Pi 5 will now cost a whopping $205. The 8GB versions of the Pi 4 and 5 will run you $125 and $135, respectively, the only other boards to climb above $100.

The folks at Raspberry Pi have announced a new touchscreen component for people using boards to create miniature touchscreen appliances: The 5-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is a 720p IPS multi-touch screen that’s natively supported by the Raspberry Pi OS and includes mounting holes on the back to make it easy to build integrated all-in-one devices.

The new screen will cost $40 and is available starting today from Pi resellers like CanaKit, Vilros, and PiShop (though some of those retailers already list it slightly above the MSRP).

“Its capacitive touch screen works out of the box with full Linux driver support—no manual calibration required, no hunting through device trees, and no wrestling with incompatible touch controllers,” writes Raspberry Pi software CTO Gordon Hollingworth in the company’s blog post.

The 5-inch touchscreen is a smaller counterpart to the $60 7-inch Pi Touch Display 2 that the company launched late last year. The two screens have the same 720p resolution, but the 7-inch model has slightly wider viewing angles (85 degrees, compared to 80 degrees for the 5-inch screen). Both are compatible with all Pi boards from 2014’s Raspberry Pi 1 B+ onward—with the exception of the Raspberry Pi Zero—and they use power from the board’s GPIO header and a display signal delivered via a ribbon cable connected to the boards’ DSI port.