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World Wide Memory: A Tour of Kingston Taiwan

 by Wesley Fink on June 16, 2005 12:05 AM EST
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100% Final Quality Inspection

Even though the finished DIMMs have already been through machine inspections, Kingston continues the manufacturing process with 100% inspection.


The finished DIMMs are moved to the inspection area.

On these lines, every DIMM is tested in a motherboard much like the board where the DIMM will be mounted by the end-user.

This is a 100% Quality Assurance process - so every single DIMM is tested in a motherboard.

100% inspection requires huge amounts of manufacturing real estate, but Kingston believes that this level of inspection is necessary to assure that customers will always get what they buy with Kingston products.

Once inspection is complete, trayed DIMMs are carted and moved to final packaging.

The manufacturing process is completed with packaging similar to what you see here. This memory is destined for the Asian market.

Separation, Testing, Labeling Final Thoughts
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  • Wesley Fink - Thursday, June 16, 2005 - link

    #6 - Without wafer-making at Kingston Taiwan the process is pretty straightforward. We kept looking for the laser Samurai warriors, but they just weren't there. There are already enough sites who invent or embelish the truth. That's why you come to AnandTech, yes?

  • wien - Thursday, June 16, 2005 - link

    Logic wouldn't give you the pictures though. :P

  • semo - Thursday, June 16, 2005 - link

    well i'm a bit disapointed. where are the videos and at least some technincal details or some interesting back story (with laser-sword wielding samurai warriors and hot princesses perhaps, no?).

    raw materials are brought in.
    raw materials are glued together.
    glued together raw materials are labeled, tested and packaged.
    the end.

    logic alone can tell me that

  • faboloso112 - Thursday, June 16, 2005 - link

    neat

  • arfan - Thursday, June 16, 2005 - link

    Good Article, and Oh... they use Dell Computer too....

  • Calin - Thursday, June 16, 2005 - link

    "...but Kingston is the only memory maker that we know whose name is recognized in every corner of the globe as the world’s largest memory maker"
    Maybe because Kingston sells its products under the same name in the whole world. Other producers (mainboards mainly) have different names for US market and European market.

    Anyway, very interesting article. I remember seeing (in Romania) an ad about 5 years ago, for Kingston memory for Sun workstations.

  • jm20 - Thursday, June 16, 2005 - link

    I always enjoy reading on the companies that manufacture technology like this. It feels comfortable knowing they tested my USBkey before I bought it.

  • Rapsven - Thursday, June 16, 2005 - link

    Interesting look on how our RAM is being made.

    Good article.
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