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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10 by IanCal on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:24PM (#13757494)
> I can't imagine there are no factories in China that can make a profit on a chip that's being made profitably in the UK.

One of their aims was to produce things in the UK. They didn't meet this initially, but with scale managed to bring production at least largely within the UK.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10 by ethbro on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:17PM (#13758673)
Isn't the entire reason we're having the "Pi can't / won't sell in industrial quantities" conversation because they can't scale production?
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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10 by IanCal on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:30AM (#13772816)
Their initial scale at the first launch was too small to work with UK manufacturers, a bit later with the first version they were able to order large enough runs to have production in Wales iirc.
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