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realo • today at 1:16 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Faster than Shenzen, fine ... but quite a bit more expensive, even taking into account the USA tariffs, which we do not have in the rest of the world.

Seems to me that Shenzen still wins at least for the non-USA world.


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1970-01-01 • today at 1:23 PM

Costs come down at scale. Vote with your wallet, tell your friends, and we just might have our faster+better+cheaper problem solved.

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NovemberPapa • today at 2:01 PM

I ordered 2 power supplies from China for work, and they power supplies were $60/each, and the tariffs were $45/ea. I am all for manufacturing in the US, but holy hell, give industry time to develop the skills and infrastructure

tbrownaw • today at 1:24 PM

For now.

I'd imagine that just because they've decided it's good enough to go public with it, doesn't mean it's done getting better. Or that someone else can't do it better, now that it's been shown to work.

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sgt • today at 1:20 PM

But for prototyping, paying extra for quick turnaround is often very sensible

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