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Tech Deals & Disruptions: Amazon Lowers Prices, Raspberry Pi Raises, Intel Roars

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Tech Industry Sees Price Fluctuations and New Product Developments

The tech world experienced a mix of price adjustments, product launches, and ongoing competition in early February 2026. Consumers saw both price increases on Raspberry Pi products due to memory shortages and price drops on Amazon's Echo Show 8. Meanwhile, OpenAI launched a desktop app for its Codex coding tool, and Intel released its new Core Ultra processors. Dyson also offered winter sales on select vacuums and heaters.

Raspberry Pi announced another round of price increases on products with 2GB or more of memory, according to The Verge. The price hikes, ranging from $10 to $60, are attributed to ongoing memory shortages. Devices using older LPDDR2 memory, which the company has stockpiled, will not be affected. This follows an initial price increase earlier in the year.

In contrast, Amazon's fourth-generation Echo Show 8 saw a price drop, reaching its lowest price ever, according to Sheena Vasani of The Verge. Vasani highlighted the device as a versatile gift option for Valentine's Day, serving as both a digital photo frame and a smart home controller. The new smart display boasts improved sound, more features, and a redesigned look.

OpenAI launched a macOS desktop app for Codex, its large language model-based coding tool, Ars Technica reported. The move puts OpenAI in closer competition with Anthropic's Claude Code, which already offered a macOS version. The Codex macOS app aims to simplify the management of multiple coding agents working in tandem, sometimes with parallel tasks running over several hours, according to the company. Previously, Codex was accessible through a command line interface (CLI) on the web or within an integrated development environment (IDE) via extensions.

Intel's new Core Ultra lineup of desktop and laptop processors, codenamed Meteor Lake, has received mixed reviews. According to Ars Technica, while the first-generation Core Ultra chips improved the GPU, they did not significantly improve CPU performance. The company's 12th- and 13th-generation Core chips offered big boosts to CPU performance over the 11th-generation CPUs, but they also usually came with a significant hit to battery life, and they only minimally improved the GPU.

Dyson is offering winter sales on select vacuums and heaters, Wired reported. The 350 sale on Dyson's budget V8 is a pretty-standard issue deal, easy to find at this price through much of last year.

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