Today we had an opportunity to escape the Computex madness, and were given the opportunity to tour Gigabyte’s factory to have a look how motherboards are made. For more goss and girls from Computex itself, make sure to check out the Day 4 report when it goes up.
After a long drive out of the city we arrived, and were promptly handed out some ‘booties’ to stop dust being trailed into the area.
 | | Booties! |
After a brief corporate talk, we were filed into a room with two chambers side by side. Four people at a time would walk into the chambers, and then about ten seconds of air was blown from both sides, to remove any loose particles.
 | | They’re not speakers on the walls. They blow some serious air around. |
The process that we saw started with the multilayer motherboard PCB already produced. It’s simply easiest to do this as a photo essay – so behold! The art of assembling a motherboard!
 | | The pristine original board. |
 | | Screening some extra goop on the board to attach the chips later, like mosfets, chipset, CPU socket, etc. |
 | | The finished result with said adhesive goop. |
 | | This machine moves insanely fast, the heads in the middle whirring faster than sight and connecting all the chips to the board… |
 | | Resulting in this. |
 | | The board is then closely checked visually, to make sure everything has been attached properly and inserted the right way around. |
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