Homey Pro Prices Spiking Next Month Due To RAMmageddon Crisis

InnovationConsumer TechHomey Pro Prices Spiking Next Month Due To RAMmageddon CrisisByPaul Lamkin,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul’s a smart home expert and the founder of the Wareable Media GroupFollow AuthorMay 19, 2026, 05:27am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Homey Pro smart home hubsAthomIf you’ve been eyeing up a new Homey smart home hub, you’ve only got a couple of weeks left before the prices jump.Athom, the LG-owned brand that runs the Homey platform, has confirmed that both the Homey Pro and Homey Pro mini are getting price increases from June 1, with rising memory and storage component costs - widely labelled RAMmageddon - blamed for the hike. According to Athom, the cost of RAM and eMMC storage has risen sharply, and its supplier Raspberry Pi has passed on higher costs for the compute modules used inside the hubs.That means the Homey Pro will rise from €399 to €449 in Europe and from $399 to $449 in the US. The Homey Pro mini jumps from €249 to €279, while US pricing climbs from $199 to $249.Homey says current pricing will stay in place until June 1, or while existing stock lasts, which gives buyers a short window to grab the current-gen hardware before the increase kicks in.The timing is interesting because Homey only refreshed the Pro line a few months ago with the Homey Pro (2026), doubling the RAM to 4GB while keeping the same $399 / €399 pricing at launch. Now that extra memory looks a lot more expensive to source than it did at the end of 2025.What Athom is facing isn’t an isolated incident; it’s a symptom of a massive global component crisis. Driven by the insatiable appetite of data centers for high-bandwidth memory, the ripple effect has sent the baseline prices for standard DRAM and flash storage skyrocketing over the last year.A recent Gartner forecast warned that this wave of "memflation" wil...