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Posted by SKYMTL— July 29th, 2010, 7:55 PM

Kingston is one of the largest and best known memory manufacturers in the world but their production facilities are usually hidden from prying eyes.  In this article, we take you deep within Kingson’s factory in Taiwan in order to see the birth of the products we all buy.


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Comments (13)
  1. headsh0t's Avatar
    headsh0t

    July 29, 2010 08:20 PM

    Neat. Any reason why Kingston is inviting journalists to check out their plants? Hope you had a nice trip :)

  2. thorn's Avatar
    thorn

    July 29, 2010 08:30 PM

    That Tech Report journalist has one long ass name.

  3. SugarJ's Avatar
    SugarJ

    July 29, 2010 08:45 PM

    Very cool. I envy you MAC. I have a Diploma in Robotics and Automation from BCIT, and it's amazing to see how production lines have changed in the last 20 years.

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    _dangtx_

    July 29, 2010 08:47 PM

    man i figured mac'd be on a quest by now!


    edits : overall a nice clean little article. bravo.

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    MAC

    July 29, 2010 09:56 PM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by headsh0t View Post
    Neat. Any reason why Kingston is inviting journalists to check out their plants? Hope you had a nice trip :)
    Companies do it all the time when they know that lots of media are in town. Just some more publicity for them!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SugarJ View Post
    Very cool. I envy you MAC. I have a Diploma in Robotics and Automation from BCIT, and it's amazing to see how production lines have changed in the last 20 years.
    Thanks

    I'll be posting an article about Gigabyte's factory in Taiwan in about 2-3 weeks. I have another event to cover first though

  6. fishingfanatic's Avatar
    fishingfanatic

    July 30, 2010 05:37 AM

    It looks like a great place to work. The production rate and failure rate is phenomenal! Thanks for the walk through pics of your tour. It seems there is quite a bit of equipment needed to produce and test these things. I hadn't realized just how much of the market Kingston has.
    Looking forward to the next in a couple/three wks.

  7. Arinoth's Avatar
    Arinoth

    July 30, 2010 07:39 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SugarJ View Post
    Very cool. I envy you MAC. I have a Diploma in Robotics and Automation from BCIT, and it's amazing to see how production lines have changed in the last 20 years.
    I had the chance to check out NCR's plant when it was still active in waterloo, and a few other manufacturing (going to school, tours and such) and it is astonishing the processes and machines used. This rivaled the 20+ year old tech we had at my college which we worked on for our few courses in robotics and automation.

    Great review and i'm rather envious as well as i'd love to go tour that and other manufacturing plants.

  8. lowfat's Avatar
    lowfat

    July 30, 2010 08:56 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arinoth View Post
    I had the chance to check out NCR's plant when it was still active in waterloo, and a few other manufacturing (going to school, tours and such) and it is astonishing the processes and machines used.

    Great review and i'm rather envious as well as i'd love to go tour that and other manufacturing plants.
    As an NCR technician I wouldn't mind seeing this.

    As for the Kingston one, that was very cool. I thought they'd have some sort of other magical way of testing memory. I really didn't expect to see hundreds of motherboard/cpu combos set up.

  9. Eldonko's Avatar
    Eldonko

    July 30, 2010 09:22 AM

    Very cool man, interesting to see for sure

  10. Arinoth's Avatar
    Arinoth

    July 30, 2010 09:44 AM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by lowfat View Post
    As an NCR technician I wouldn't mind seeing this.

    As for the Kingston one, that was very cool. I thought they'd have some sort of other magical way of testing memory. I really didn't expect to see hundreds of motherboard/cpu combos set up.

    Unfortunately its gone now, well the manufacturing plant is (so i've heard)

  11. ipaine's Avatar
    ipaine

    July 30, 2010 02:24 PM

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by lowfat View Post
    As for the Kingston one, that was very cool. I thought they'd have some sort of other magical way of testing memory. I really didn't expect to see hundreds of motherboard/cpu combos set up.
    I was thinking the same thing. As for the article I enjoyed it and would not mind seeing more like this in the future.

    Good job MAC

  12. traitoR's Avatar
    traitoR

    August 1, 2010 11:35 AM

    Interesting article, it's neat to see the inner workings.

  13. hdvision's Avatar
    hdvision

    August 1, 2010 01:24 PM

    Interesting to see the insides of one of these factories. Looking forward to the gigabyte factory article