Comments on: Gigabyte Factory Tour

Gigabyte Factory Tour

giantkicks — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:59:24 -0800

A thorough tour of the Gigabyte motherboard factory. 20 pages with lots of photos showing the complete motherboard assembly process. The 'wave soldering' techique is pretty cool.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 20:04:04 -0800

fixed wave soldering link

By: Josh Zhixel

Josh Zhixel — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 20:06:19 -0800

That is pretty awesome. I've always had this odd concept of Taiwanese computer companies as operating out of a tin shack, so it's kind of weird to see them IN THIS GIANT MASSIVE BUILDING.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 20:22:36 -0800

Yo, giantkicks, what the hell happened? Care to add the rest of the sentence that started, "The"?

By: Dean Keaton

Dean Keaton — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:01:11 -0800

By: Mean Mr. Bucket

Mean Mr. Bucket — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:05:51 -0800

Awesome post.

By: fatllama

fatllama — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:06:52 -0800

Aw, I wanted a movie of the wave soldering machine in action. Yet what I found was so much more.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:13:03 -0800

I've heard the term before, but I had no idea how it worked. I am in awe.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:33:31 -0800

Oh, and their eight-story robot wearhouse is badass, I must say

By: giantkicks

giantkicks — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:39:39 -0800

Strange. I previewed and checked each link before posting. Looked and still looks fine in both Firefox and IE???

By: ibidem

ibidem — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:21:38 -0800

This was completely fascinating. Thank you for sharing, giantkicks! Also, excellent find, fatllama. I was also really interested in seeing the wave soldering in action and that .mov certainly hit the spot.

By: Vallenwood

Vallenwood — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:36:39 -0800

fatlama's link is priceless. Everyone should play the first few seconds just to hear the ridiculous "surfer dude" voice they use to hook the schoolkids this thing is apparently meant for. The fact that they follow this laughable introduction with a narrator informing us that "in this video we'll be introducing you to the key elements of the wave-soldering process: fluxing, preheating, and soldering!" pretty much proves that most grownups don't have a goddam clue what actual kids are like.

By: giantkicks

giantkicks — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:49:14 -0800

Link sharing is a pleasure. Glad you're all liking it. Is Fatlama's link pricey, or are these prices considered normal in the 'educational' video market? DVD-47, DVD $ 400 (US) OVT- 47S, MPEG1 Video for LAN, Site License $ 638 (US) OVT- 47G, MPEG1 Video for WAN, Global Site License $ 1,914 (US)

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:18:52 -0800

fatlama's link is priceless. Everyone should play the first few seconds just to hear the ridiculous "surfer dude" voice they use to hook the schoolkids this thing is apparently meant for. The fact that they follow this laughable introduction with a narrator informing us that "in this video we'll be introducing you to the key elements of the wave-soldering process: fluxing, preheating, and soldering!" pretty much proves that most grownups don't have a goddam clue what actual kids are like. I don't think the video is meant for 'kids', otherwise why would they have a WAN site license? Rather, it's probably meant for either factory workers, or engineers who are going to be building systems that include waveflow.

By: kindall

kindall — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:24:04 -0800

This is a corporate instructional video, for adults not children, and yes, that price is typical. You're going to spend thousands of dollars training each new hire; $400 is peanuts next to that. The "surfer dude" thing is very typical of the kind of "humor" they try to put into these videos to keep the viewers from nodding off. See, the videographers who make it consider themselves creative professionals and they want to make it "edgy" or at least "fun," because some of this stuff can be pretty dry. However, they absolutely cannot offend any client employee or, more importantly, management, so you get the most sanitized, lamest attempts at humor imaginable. You think this is bad, I was once subjected to a Sears paint training video which featured a song titled "Peelings," to the tune of (you guessed it) "Feelings." The good thing is, the voiceover talent is bound to mispronounce one or two technical terms, as happens here, and that's always good for a laugh.

By: milkwood

milkwood — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:21:40 -0800

Loved it! Absolutely loved it! Fantastic link.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 07:44:35 -0800

I checked it out on my Mac. Looks fine, good post. (You have a double quote at the end of your wave-soldering link which every browser/platform seems able to ignore except MicroSoft's oh-so-professional IE6 on NT.)

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:42:19 -0800

Another cool factory tour is this tour of a computer case manufacturer in mainland China. The conditions are not nearly as high-tech and safety isn't the greatest, but it's still fascinating.