HALPI2 Price Increase
- 2026-02-02
- Matti Airas
Unfortunately, global LPDDR4 memory and NAND flash prices have risen sharply over the past months, driven by AI infrastructure build-out competing for semiconductor fab capacity. This directly affects two key HALPI2 components, the Raspberry Pi CM5 compute module and NVMe SSDs, and we have had to adjust HALPI2 prices accordingly.
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Hat Labs and the Global Semiconductor Shortage
- 2021-09-18
- Matti Airas
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global semiconductor shortage, caused by partial shutdowns of integrated circuit production facilities due to the global lockdowns early 2020 as well as marked increase in the demand of computers and consumer electronics. As a result, many commonly available chips have become totally unavailable or the price has increased many times over. For example, a common real-time clock chip, DS3231MZ used in SH-RPi cost USD 1.61 in low quantities in August 2020, but now the price has increased to over USD 7 at low quantities, with ship date estimates around May or July, 2022. Some of these components can be easily replaced, but most require at least a partial PCB design with prototype rounds and EMC pre-compliance testing.
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