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This article gets brought up in every post about CHIP. Maybe there's something to it but coming from a competitor this sounds a bit fishy. It was also before the Raspberry Pi Zero (made in the UK!) launched, which lacks quite a few of the CHIP's features but at $5 sets a high bar in any case.

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The bom cost for the RPI zero is clearly lower. No flash, no wifi, much cheaper cpu, etc.

It is almost a certainty that the BOM cost alone for the CHIP exceeds $9. That's the unassembled pile of parts.

Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charity sponsored by Broadcom, maker of the chip.

$5 is an arbitrary price, and in no way shape or form comparable with a business making a single board computer and having to buy components at market rate.

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