Corsair Factory Tour

Written by Wil Harris

September 20, 2004 | 01:00

Tags: #california #corsair-memory #fab #factory #factory-tour #ram #xms

Companies: #corsair

Corsair Factory Tour Factory Tour Part 1

On our recent visit to San Francisco for IDF, we took the opportunity to go and see the guys at Corsair Memory for a tour around their facility in Fremont, CA. We thought it might be interesting for you guys if we snapped the place that actually makes all the RAM that goes in your machines, and take you around a little tour of how your RAM modules come into being!

Corsair Factory Tour Factory Tour Part 1

RAM starts out like this - as a sheet of blank PCBs with no surface-mounted components...yet!

Corsair Factory Tour Factory Tour Part 1

This boring-looking machine takes those sheets and presses hot solder onto them in accordance with a template - almost like using a stencil!

Corsair Factory Tour Factory Tour Part 1

The stencilling process in action.

Corsair Factory Tour Factory Tour Part 1

These reels contain tiny little components on strips.

Corsair Factory Tour Factory Tour Part 1

The machine they are attached to picks up a bunch of them and fires them onto the sheets of soldered PCBs. See the motion blur on the gun!

Corsair Factory Tour Factory Tour Part 1

The PCBs then get sent through this oven to bake - the heat melts the solder onto the components, creating the finished module...

Corsair Factory Tour Factory Tour Part 1

... which comes out the other end looking like this. Individual modules are trimmed from the PCB frame just like an Airfix kit...

Corsair Factory Tour Factory Tour Part 1

... and into a tray full of lots and lots of RAM.
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