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Comment by jrexilius | Hacker News Reader

I've been using Macrofab for a couple years now and their experience is MUCH smoother. Prices are a bit higher, but for me, that is not an issue.

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How high?

1 million per piece. this is only for customers where price is not an issue.

> 1 million per piece

Zimbabwean dollars I hope because 1 million usd PER BOARD?

Pray it doesn’t need RAM.

The Zimbabwean mint has never been busier

There aren't enough trees on earth.

Finally a use case for Knuth's up-arrow notation in daily life.

Not familiar with the issue, but that has to be $1m minimum order, correct? And you would get a production run in 1-10k. How many revs does that include?

My understanding is that Shenzhen dominance so far is from 3 pillars - low minimum order size, low per-part price, and fast response. They can do that because they have lot of highly trained labor that work mad hours. So to compete you would need to leverage a lot of automation... which would be a lot less flexible and very rocky at the start. Would love to get a correction from someone more familiar with the situation.

Surely you mean $1m per project and not per board, and projects are at a large scale?

One example, I ran a small batch (20) of 2-layer test/dev boards with some pricier chips on them for something like $2k. It would have cost be like $800 on PCBway. But I've run into enough counterfiet chip issues with PCBWay and such that ate up so much debugging time that the extra cost for Macrofab was fine.

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