Motherboard Manufacturing Process

USI-The SiP Company
2 min readMay 29, 2021

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What Is A Motherboard?

A motherboard connects and transmits signals to and from peripherals, such as your computer keyboard, mouse, and monitor. The same can be said for the components, such as your CPU, GPU, RAM, along with many others.

The motherboard is basically a large PCB (printed circuit board), and the numerous lines you see will be embedded copper tracks. These copper tracks are responsible for connecting up your different parts and permit communication to take place between them.

Consider the motherboard as an orchestral conductor bringing the various parts together in perfect harmony. On a motherboard, you can expect to see standard components like capacitors, resistors, and VRMs, which handle the electrical current.

If you still are not grasping this, don’t worry, we are going to go into more detail for the terminology.

Motherboard Manufacturing Process.

The motherboard manufacturing Procedure is essentially broken up into four components: That is where smaller components are soldered onto the motherboard. The process begins with the PCBs stacked and pushed by a machine one by one into an innovative printer, which then follows a pre-labeled design before soldering elements in place.

1. The motherboards aren’t sent straight to DIP only because they need to be manually inspected first and then put in an integrated chip to guarantee that the print which has been arranged is accurate. If it passes the test, then its journey continues.

2. DIP (Dual Inline Package) — This process starts with the motherboards being put to a machine that installs the tiny capacitors. Then, larger components, like 24-pin connectors, and input/output vents, are mounted by hand.

Prior to a motherboard is ready for testing, it has to pass the guide inspection to ensure that the parts are correctly installed.

Following the manual review, these are sent through a heat chamber that is thought to go all of the way around 509° Fahrenheit (265° Celsius) to fortify the newly inserted components. After this, it’ll then be ready for testing.

3. Testing — Testing is really easy to understand and, as always, important for quality control. All of the I/O ports, PCI Express Lanes, etc. will want to pass a series of tests before they’re tagged as ready for packaging.

4. Packaging And Distribution — The packaging and distribution procedure is where the SATA cables, manual, I/O shield, driver installer, and nearly whatever you’d find within a newly bought motherboard is packaged. The motherboard will also be packaged in an antistatic bag here. Now, the motherboard is now ready for distribution.

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