How Motherboards Are Made

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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Elitist commentary

[jihadist]

"So industrious, those Taiwanese!"

I'm the last person to be cultural coach out there, but I caught a lot of the rich American city person finding it quaint that those little squinty-eyed people did things in such an IMPOVERISED, uneducated (no MBAs), unfamiliar-with-the-hip-joints-in-NYC way. That commentary... I detest the word "racist," (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!

Re:Western Economic Hypocracy...

[be-fan]

A person in China wanting to purchase a CD (from for example, Amazon.com) would not be able to afford it - because that CD would still cost the same US$$ to purchase from China/India/Fiji/Indonesia that it would to purchase it from the UK or from the USA.

A person in China working in a sweatshop is not in the market for CDs.

What you are actually advocating is that people in the "Third World" should not expect the same standard of living as people in the "First World"

Of course they shouldn't. What the hell planet do you live on where everyone can expect the same standard of living?

Those corporations should be required to pay the same wages in US$$ as they should be paying in Europe or the USA.

Then you'd have a few factory workers living like kings*, and a whole lot of unemployed people who would otherwise have work now being unable to sustain their families. Yeah, that's a great idea!

*) A median American salary of $45,000 is enough to buy a house in the most exclusive gated community in Bangladesh, send your children to private English schools, and maintain a cook, a maid, a nanny, and someone to handle odd-jobs.