14 DAY TRIAL // Back in March, a large part of the manufacturing of the Raspberry Pi credit card-sized personal computer was moved to the UK, as part of a deal with Sony.
Now we can safely say that it was a good decision, as manufacture grew to 40,000 units in the UK facility alone.
That means that the UK produces more of them than the China facility, which is no small feat.
With this, shipments have already surpassed the 500,000 mark, which means they soon will go beyond 1,000,000.
“In June we scheduled 204 units per week. By July that had climbed to 10,000 units per week – this month we will achieve 38,000 output per week, and this is just the beginning,” said Gerald Kelly, the GM of Sony’s Pencoed plant.
“The future is about higher volumes and accessories such as a camera board. Current total forecast for Pi products indicate that 1,000,000 output will be achieved sometime in July this year.”