Because manufacturers prefer profits over the race to the bottom pricing strategy of many SBCs.
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charity.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation doesn't own factories... They have to pay for manufacturing capacity and thus are limited in that capacity because their boards are built to a very strict cost that they seldom raise.
Aah, that's what you meant. Yes that makes sense. That said in Jeff Geerling's interview with Eben Upton, where they spoke about manufacturing and toured the SONY UK factory where the Pis are made, they called out component shortage as the culprit. Specifically the BCM2711's availability. Of course that's his word. I don't know if that factory makes anything else than Pis in volume that competes with it. Maybe it does. 🤷
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