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How Motherboards Are Made

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the behind-the-scenes dept.

mikemuch writes "Reporter Mark Hachman recently took a tour of a motherboard manufacturing facility operated by Gigabyte in Taiwan, and has posted a complete slideshow of the process. He was surprised by how much still had to be done by hand, but the company is still able to produce 1.5 million motherboards a month."

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  1. How motherboards are made by 6Yankee · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Well, first the grandfatherboard and the grandmotherboard have to love each other very much. And then they have a very special cuddle, and the grandfatherboard puts his pin into the grandmotherboard's socket, and then there's a motherboard."

    1. Re:How motherboards are made by solafide · · Score: 4, Funny

      And then the motherboard meets a fatherboard, and the result is a board.

    2. Re:How motherboards are made by Funkcikle · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm fairly certain it will be a daughterboard.
      In China, these daughterboards are discarded. The sonboards are the desired product.
  2. Willy Wonka... by JazzyMusicMan · · Score: 0, Funny

    Oompah Loompahs mix the chocolate by hand and look at how many Wonka Bars are produced a year! I wonder what the silicon valley equivalent of a chocolate river is...

  3. oblig. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Russian components, American components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!

  4. The result is a baby ATX.... by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Funny

    Technically speaking, the result is a Baby ATX....only later does it grow up to become a full-grown motherboard.

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  5. Heresy!!!!!!! by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Funny

    We all know that long ago in the Garden of Silicon the Divine Circut created the first FatherBoard in his own image. Then because the FatherBoard was lonely the Divine Circut took a rib logic gate from the FatherBoard and used it to create a MotherBoard to be the FatherBoards companion. Now MotherBoards can only be created within the sanctity of a Printing Process approved by the Holy Surface Mount Church.

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  6. Got to love this image by mrjb · · Score: 4, Funny

    This made me chuckle-
    1. Be more responsible
    2. Complain less
    3. Be more attentive
    4. Make lesser mistakes

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  7. Re:Elitist commentary by Eideewt · · Score: 2, Funny

    (and I know that every one of you ARE racist, even if you think you're not) and I don't think that's what's going on here, but definitely condescending. America isn't the center of the universe, yo. It's a dying empire that still has some bux to blow!

    Well it's a good thing we have nice guys like you to straighten us racists out!