How a motherboard is made: Inside the Gigabyte factory in Taiwan - herellonly

martyn_williams@idg.com G's motherboard production argumentation spans three floors of a Taiwan factory and is surprisingly manual.

Gigabyte is one of the biggest motherboard makers in the cosmos, and we visited the accompany's mill in Taiwan to get unsuccessful how they're manufactured.

Gigabyte's Nan Ping factory in Pingzhen City, astir an hour west of Taipei, is the last left motherboard factory in Taiwan. It produces some 400,000 units per month, or nigh a quarter of GB's total motherboard outturn.

Robots remove very much of the most knotty form from world. However, a surprising amount of construction is still cooked away hand: the insertion of many larger components, e.g., and visual checks of the motherboards.

170531 gigabyte motherboard 4 — Gigabyte's factory in Pingzhen city, Taiwan.

Humans and machines often work together. Machines that attach teeny transistors have humans managing their supply. Small, wheeled robots deliver components to people on the assembly line. Human hands may pack the motherboards and accessories into boxes, but they scan to each one component against an electronic checklist to ensure the package has everything required.

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Martyn Williams produces technology news and product reviews in text and video for PC World, Macworld, and TechHive from his home outer Washington D.C.. Helium previously worked for IDG News Service as a correspondent in San Francisco and Tokyo and has reportable on technology news from across Asia and EEC.