1 Million PIs manufactured

**d000hg** · 8 October 2013, 09:13

At first neither he nor Upton thought it would be possible to make the sums add up and produce the Pi at a price to compete with China. But then they thought about the cost of delivering from China, of having someone based there to oversee manufacturing and the quality control issues the project was already encountering. With some investment by Sony in machinery which automated a key part of the process, they decided it could work - and within a couple of months Pi production was up and running.

The Pi has been exported around the world and looks set to become the best-selling British computer since the 1980s - though as it retails at about £30, it will never earn the revenues that the likes of the ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro achieved

If they're exporting it, why would they be shipping all of the units from China -> UK anyway?

Or is it that 90% of Pi units are sold within the UK right now?

**scooterscot** · 8 October 2013, 09:56

Originally posted by vetran View Post

Celebration and its made in Britain (not Germany or Scotland you may notice).

BBC News - Baked in Britain, the millionth Raspberry Pi

Made in Wales, by a Japanese company.

**vetran** · 8 October 2013, 11:20

Originally posted by zeitghost

Sony, Bridgend.

From the looks of the place, it's so clean you could eat your dinner off the floor.

Which is a bit of a contrast with the old GEC/Sobel factory up in Hirwaun, where it was common practice to eat one's fish & chips on the production line. Allegedly.

When Hitachi took it over, they were appalled.

yep its the managers not the workers.

British workers can be very good (I exclude myself of course) but the managers are muppets mainly.

1 Million PIs manufactured