Yet another example of manufacturing of high-tech (hence low proportion of labour cost) back to the West.
BBC: “Production of the popular Raspberry Pi computer is switching from China to south Wales.
The £16 credit card-sized computer, which aims to get young people interested in programming, was launched earlier this year to critical acclaim.
The success of the venture has now seen Sony step in to offer its Pencoed plant near Bridgend to make the mini-computer.
The deal will see 300,000 boards built, creating an extra 30 jobs at the site.
Sony will make the new computers for the company Premier Farnell, which distributes the Raspberry Pi on behalf of the device inventors, the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
It’s been coming off the lines at Pencoed for a few weeks, so people now actually have them in their hands”
Eben Upton, the charity’s executive director said: “It’s a fantastic day for us. This has been in the pipeline for about six months after we visited the Sony site.
“It is so good to see that we can still do this sort of thing in the UK – do it in Wales.”
via BBC News – Raspberry Pi production moves to Wales from China.
See also:
- https://chindia-alert.org/2012/10/03/lenovo-to-open-pc-production-plant-in-us/
- https://chindia-alert.org/2012/12/07/apple-to-return-some-mac-production-to-u-s-in-2013/
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