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A Tour Of The Kingston Memory Factory In Taiwan
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Visitors have to wear a special anti-static suit with with this printed on it. We also had to wear blue booties over our shoes.

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The logo in the main lobby.

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A display case of Kingston's achievements.

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Where the DRAM magic happens.

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It's very clinical.

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That's your DRAM being put on the PCB.

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A memory module is born.

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RAM being passed between machines.

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There it goes!

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RAM getting split up from big sheets of PCB.

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There it goes again!

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The final product, before it gets tested.

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The computer that tells the machines what to do.

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Heavy machinery.

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It's break time!

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Just one of the memory testbeds.

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A worker swapping out memory from the testbeds.

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Lots of testing goes on here, as you can see.

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The Auto SPD machine.

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RAM gets the pass or fail.

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Same thing happens for laptops.

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Through the looking glass...

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Then it gets inspected by a real human.

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So far no failures!

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The more flashy type of memory.

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Flash being made inside.

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Those are USB thumb drives being born!

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It's a USB nursery!

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Ready to be tested.

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Human inspection again.

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Stamping the drives.

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Does that packaging look familiar?

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Going through the packing machine.

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There go the drives.

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Going from machine to boxes.

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All packed up and ready to go.

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Lots more waiting to be shipped out.

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More testing hardware.

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Fancy stuff.

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A good way to think about quality.

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Remember this ad?

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One of Kingston's data centers.

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Thanks for taking the tour with us. Would you like a sip of Kingston water?