During Computex, I was offered a chance to go see how a motherboard is actually produced. GIGABYTE invited me and other media on a trip to see one of their three factories. We were bused off to the ...

Then comes the really cool stuff, which utilizes robotic arms to pick the board up and test the various parts. This automated process is facilitated by the DIP-ICT21, an advanced in-circuit testing ...

Hey folks, how's the weekend treating ya? Whatever your situation, I bet there's time for a little tech news, so dig in! Inside ECS - Motherboard Factory Tour @ Hardware Zone "www.hardwarezone.com (R) ...

Once the motherboards have had all their components attached, the quality-testing process begins. This starts with simple visual checks, where workers cover the motherboards with masks and check that ...

Just before COMPUTEX I was invited by industry heavyweight Gigabyte to tour its Nan-ping factory situated just outside Pingjhen City in the north-west of Taiwan. Having never visited a motherboard ...

1 - Introduction 2 - PCB: Inner Layer & Lamination 3 - PCB: Routing & Drilling 4 - PCB: Copper Plating 5 - PCB: Outer Layer 6 - PCB: Inspection, Etching & Solder Mask 7 - Mobo: SMD Components 8 - Mobo ...

This week, MSI invited some 50 journalists from all over the world to visit its notebook and motherboard factory just outside of Shanghai in China and TweakTown was one of the lucky publications that ...

Gigabyte Technology is now almost certain to build its new motherboard factory in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province (China), said general manager Richard Ma. The company was considering three cities in ...

KitGuru recently flew out to China where we met Ethan Yang, the vice president for msi Shenzhen’s manufacturing plant. He gave us a tour of his factory facility just as they were going through the ...

Now we've got a product that looks somewhat akin to what you receive in the box. The larger components have been machine-fed on to the mainboard and been inserted ready for wave soldering. Optical ...

This is done using a large machine that has reels upon reels of SMT or surface mount technology components. This ranges from controllers, MOSFETs, chokes and various other chips and components that ...