Sapphire Factory Tour

Manual Work

The first manual production step is to cut the big PCB into two video cards.

After that, large through-hole-components are placed and soldered on the video card.



Manual solder rework of the video cards is the last soldering step, if needed.
Sometimes during the lifespan of a video card product, a problem comes up or there is a recommendation from ATI for an added/replaced/removed component. During the time until the schematics are updated and the machines are set up, the changes are performed manually here, so that the production line does not have to be idle.



The final "production" step is putting the serial number sticker on the video card.
At the moment considerable work is going into a system which allows complete tracking of the sales, shipping, packaging and production history of every single Sapphire video card from the end-user, back to the individual production line.