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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. Never Underestimate... by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    how much still had to be done by hand, but the company is still able to produce 1.5 million motherboards a month.

    Never underestimate the power of 10 million low-paid Chinese.

    --
    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  2. He was surprised... by kbox · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...by how much still had to be done by hand. Everything is done by hand in Taiwan.

    Why pay for robots when you have an endless supply of poor people willing to work for 1% of the cost of one mother board a week.

    --
    God Be Gone