E ben Upton took to the interblogs to explain a couple of awkward changes to the usually cheap-as-chips Raspberry Pi range. The key points are that the Pi 4 2GB model is temporally increasing in price from $35 to $45, and the reintroduction of the discontinued Pi 4 1GB model at the $35 price point. This gives buyers the option of hitting a price point, albeit with less memory.
Upton explains this is down to supply chain problems post Covid-19 in the semiconductor industry, which are likely to run through the whole of 2022. Interestingly, these are hitting older 40nm-based products the hardest, which means anything that isn’t a Pi 4, Pi 400 or Compute Module 4 will be in short supply.