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Raspberry Pi shouldn't be affected.
Say you have a company that sells computers and computer parts.
Indivudual parts are unaffected.
Educational and expirimental stuff (like the Raspberry Pi) are also unaffected.
But then you got your prebuilt computers.
Ones that are not very expandable (upgradeabl)e and don't have a lot of processing power have to use a very small amount of energy and shut off at a certain time to be sold anywhere Title 20 is in place. So stuff like laptops, all-in-ones and mini computers all fall in this category. They are not (very) "expandable" because (most) everything is soldered together. You can't upgrade the CPU, you can't add another stick of RAM, there are no PCIe slots so no way to add a graphics card internally, the SSD is soldered to the motherboard so that can't be upgraded. These computers have to use very little electricity compared to the rest or they can't be sold.
But take a full sized ATX tower computer for another example. Even if you get one with a Core i3 or Ryzen 3 processor, no graphics card a small mechanical hard drive and only 2GB of RAM, this computer can use substantially more power than a "non-expandable" one and still be sold. That's because you could put in a Core i9 or Ryzen 9, up the RAM to 64GB, swap out the hard drive for a blazing fast SSD and stick in dual graphics cards if you so desired. It could still fail if the PSU isn't efficient enough or you don't make it go to sleep in 30 minutes by default, or if you don't get it certified. But in the end, it shouldn't be hard to do on such a computer.
There's a lot of things that can be done to tweak a computer to use as much power or as little as you want. Usually the last couple percent of performance can nearly double the power consumption. Just throttle it back just a little and get a good PSU so it doesn't use much while idle either and you could easily pass the new regulation.
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