We’ve reached a bit a landmark. As you’ll know if you’ve been following us since we started documenting what happens when you decide to make a tiny computer for education back in 2011, the first Raspberry Pis were made in China
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1.75 million sold so far – and 1 million made in the UK
ElectronicsWeekly.com Video: Picking and placing a Raspberry Pi – Made in the UK ElectronicsWeekly.com making Raspberry Pi at Pencoed I'm really pleased with this one – Electronics Weekly sent the Metropolis “video man”, Dave Berman, to film Raspberry Pi dev boards being made at the Sony manufacturing facility in Pencoed, South Wales. And I think he's
Electronics Weekly dropped in to the Pi factory in Pencoed, South Wales, did a lot of filming on the factory floor, and had a chat with Claire Doyle, who runs Raspberry Pi global distribution for Farnell, one of our manufacturing partners.
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Raspberry Pi to be manufactured in Wales evertiq.com The Sony UK Technology Centre in Pencoed, Wales will manufacture the Raspberry Pi – the first time the product has been produced outside China. The deal signed will require the site to produce 300,000 units of the small computer for Premier Farnell.
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As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader of this website, production of the Raspberry Pi started in China back at the start of 2012, but has been gradually moving to Wales since last September. One of our distributors, Premier Farnell/Element14, already makes 100% of its Pis in the Welsh Sony factory in Pencoed, where Pis are built under licence. The other, RS Components, is in the process of moving the vast bulk of its manufacture to Wales as well (although they will continue to make a much reduced number of Pis in China for the Far East market)
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500,000 Pis in Wales
Daily Mail Raspberry Pi a global hit: £16 credit-card sized computer made in Wales sells … Daily Mail A £16 computer designed to help children learn how to write code has sold out across the US within hours
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Even More Raspberry Pi Now Made In The U.K. As Largest Distributor Of $25 …
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BBC Radio Wales’ Science Cafe programme this week came from the Sony factory in Pencoed, Wales , that makes the Raspberry Pi for us under licence. It’s only available for UK listeners (my mistake – the BBC’s territorial thingbat doesn’t extend to radio broadcasts, so you can listen anywhere in the world – as long as you aren’t Gert, who is still having problems), and only for the next five days
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BBC Wales Science Cafe broadcast from the Pi factory