Sapphire Factory Tour

W1zzard · Mar 6, 2005

We had the honor to be the first journalists to visit Sapphire's factory where most ATI video cards are produced. This report will take you through all stages of video card production and show many interesting details on how a video card is build.

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LMP · May 24, 2005

Very nice Wizzard! really

gR3iF · May 24, 2005

nice tour but is every manufactor testing the card before?

Urlyin · May 24, 2005

I liked it... something different... I would have thought the process would be more automated... but a nice look into the process... thanks W1zz

wazzledoozle · May 24, 2005

Nice. Do you have any numbers of about how many graphics cards they have to throw away because the BGA pins were bad?

Unregistered CMD15 · May 25, 2005

Slave Labor

Well when I saw that the ATI cards were made in China, I first thought of the slave labor that goes on there. It is sad to see that our nice cards are part of globalization's slave lobor. I wonder how much the workers get from out $299.00 X800XL's??

What happens if we have a war with China? no more ATI cards for the U.S.?

Unregistered · May 25, 2005

Unregistered CMD15 said:
Well when I saw that the ATI cards were made in China, I first thought of the slave labor that goes on there. It is sad to see that our nice cards are part of globalization's slave lobor. I wonder how much the workers get from out $299.00 X800XL's??

What happens if we have a war with China? no more ATI cards for the U.S.?

STFU , you just wanna "rescue" these yellow honeys from their factory labor eh? Crusader boy?

W1zzard · May 25, 2005

the workers in the factory are making good money (compared to regular wages in china), the work is not physically hard.

What happens if we have a war with China? no more ATI cards for the U.S.?

if the us go to war with china, i suggest you better stop worrying about video cards and start looking for the next nuke shelter

djbbenn · May 25, 2005

W1zzard said:
if the us go to war with china, i suggest you better stop worrying about video cards and start looking for the next nuke shelter

Lol good anwser.

-Dan

Unregistered · May 27, 2005

Great article and pictures.
Thanks for sharing!

erocker · Jan 6, 2008

This was a very cool article!! :rockout:

Duffman · Jan 6, 2008

pretty cool. Nice to see where my cards came from lol!

Morgoth · Jan 6, 2008

woot hot asian schicks at Sapphire i knew it!

Monkeywoman · Jan 6, 2008

x800xl? wow, they still selling those in china? one would make a killing off selling 3870s there

W1zzard · Jan 6, 2008

Monkeywoman said:
x800xl? wow, they still selling those in china? one would make a killing off selling 3870s there

look at the post date of this article...

Monkeywoman · Jan 6, 2008

i knoe....its a Monkey trying to be funny :ohwell:

strick94u · Jan 7, 2008

Glad someone dug this up its excellent

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