How Motherboards Are Made

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With this in mind, it's surprising to learn the amount of work and machinery involved in manufacturing a single motherboard. We'd vaguely imagined some sort of stamping process where all components are slapped onto the bare board in one step and soldered, before being boxed in a big room full of bored workers.

Sure there'd have to be some testing, but how intense could it be?

As PCSTATS recent trip to Gigabyte's Nan-Ping factory in Taiwan showed us, there's a lot more to it. In fact, producing and testing a single motherboard involves a mind-boggling host of automated machines, people and processes; so we'd like to detail the whole assembly line we toured while covering Computex, to give you a feel for how things are really made.

Mobo Factory Tour

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Facinating.

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Thanks for that link. Very interesting article. I wonder how many workers there are in that factory, given that most of the assembly is automated and most of the workspace seems to be for automated processes.

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I just love solder waves.

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Facinating.

I agree 100%.

:) davey

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I have a Gigabyte "GA-8VM800PMD-775 Motherboard" and seeing the way these things are manufactured was amazing :)

Thanks for the link Humpty :D