Making Motherboards The Gigabyte Way
Making Motherboards The Gigabyte Way
Enthusiasts may know tons about the hardware that comprises their PCs, but it’s much more difficult to fully appreciate how those components come to be. We spend so much time talking about bleeding-edge manufacturing processes and the millions of transistors etched into silicon, then distill the technology into its asking price without appreciating the R&D invested in creating a new product.
But let’s be fair. One reason the average computer user’s interest in the inner workings of tech is so superficial is that hardware manufacturers’ communication is deliberately simplistic. Fortunately, there are exceptions. At the last Computex consumer electronics trade show, which is held yearly in Taipei, Taiwan, Gigabyte invited the press to visit one of its factories. We obliged.
Come along, as we take you on a pictorial tour of how some of your favorite motherboards and graphics cards go from lifeless components to—well, lifeless, yet functional, hardware.
Whisper silent... I hope those are earbuds and not earplugs then. I think I'd have some form of carpel tunnel in a week there. Makes me appreciate the boards a bit more.
Thanks for a smart (though not super detailed) write up with fewer then usual errors in the writing!
funny how we saw only 1 guy workin there
Really cool article btw.
Please check on digitimes financial information and check revenues for 2007 and it clearly states, gigabyte it's barely number 6.
please take a look at:
http://www.digitimes.com/fin/CoList.asp
and just pull down "mobos" and "motherboard" info and check by yourself.
They also have 2008 sales up to june and 1st quarter numbers as well.
Asustek is a monster company.