Asus Starts Industry's First Fully-Automated Graphics Card Production

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Asus' new production method is an industry first, and should deliver more reliable, higher quality graphics cards than before.

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[dstarr3]

Cool.

 

[Larry Litmanen]

Great job ASUS.

 

[John12w]

It helps reducing Asus costs by firing employers, great job Asus, I will move to Gigabyte.

 

[derekullo]

Building a graphics card by hand does sound fun ... the first time.

 

[childofthekorn]

Very cool tech. I didn't realize it was all still done by hand.

 

[derekullo]

It helps reducing Asus costs by firing employers, great job Asus, I will move to Gigabyte.

To be fair they can also fire cpus and get a new one (Upgrade).

 

[RedJaron]

It helps reducing Asus costs by firing employers, great job Asus, I will move to Gigabyte.

Asus is a business, and they're in the business of making money. Minimizing costs is one way to be more competitive in the market. Right now Asus products usually cost more than competitors strictly for a brand premium, particularly in the lower-cost mboards. If this allows them to bring pricing into line with the other GPU vendors, it helps them stay in business.

 

[skoalreaver]

It helps reducing Asus costs by firing employers, great job Asus, I will move to Gigabyte.

Firing employers. Good job on that GED

 

[Aspiring techie]

Excellent! This is capitalism and competition at its finest! This will definitely make folks migrate towards them.

 

[Sprezzaa]

John12w then you should quite wearing clothes and drinking Coffey eating bananas ect ect. They all come from unfair conditions.

 

[uglyduckling81]

John12w then you should quite wearing clothes and drinking Coffey eating bananas ect ect. They all come from unfair conditions.

What if he makes his own clothes, using wool from his own sheep and grows his own coffee beans and bananas? He probably also does all the work, sets his own hours, and lives in a huge self made and very comfortable house. Doesn't sound like unfair conditions at all.

 

[uglyduckling81]

Oh I forgot to add, hopefully with this improvement in quality I can put Asus back on the radar. Their higher cost and lower quality has made me avoid them for years now.

 

[RedJaron]

I'd consider them higher cost / same quality right now. I don't recall having an Asus product ever fail on me, but I haven't had many products from other companies fail on me either.

 

[William Henrickson]

When I saw their Strix 960 pulling way too much power off the PCIE slot, I went Gigabyte with my build. Very happy.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Nice!! This alone gives me more incentive to buy an Asus card.

 

[computerguy72]

Excellent! This is capitalism and competition at its finest! This will definitely make folks migrate towards them.

Dude there are still tons of jobs running the line, loading the many smt machines, maintaining them, maintaining the reels, testing the equipment and products and much, much more than just people sitting there soldering. For you ignorance is bliss I guess.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

I'd consider them higher cost / same quality right now. I don't recall having an Asus product ever fail on me, but I haven't had many products from other companies fail on me either.

Things are changing. Compare user reviews on newegg from Z87 to Z97; the number of (one egg) negative reviews is up 50% or better. The Rampage Extreme IV (I have 2 of the older models) has more warranty fails as a % of units sold than any other board on the market

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/927-2/cartes-meres.html

Failure rates > 2 % (Asus 10, AsRock 7, MSI 3, Ggabyte 1)

- 8,80% ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
- 8,05% ASRock AD2550B-ITX
- 7,93% ASRock FM2A88M Extreme4+
- 7,25% ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0
- 7,20% ASUS Maximus VI Extreme
- 5,95% ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0
- 5,93% MSI Z87I
- 5,56% Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3
- 5,26% ASRock 990FX Extreme3
- 5,06% ASUS Maximus VI Formula
- 5,05% ASRock FM2A55M-VG
- 4,76% ASUS Z87I-PRO
- 4,55% ASRock Fatal1ty Z87 Killer
- 4,42% ASUS Maximus VI Gene
- 4,26% ASUS Z87-PRO
- 4,13% ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87
- 3,65% MSI Z87-G45 GAMING
- 3,48% MSI Z87-G43 GAMING
- 3,37% ASUS Z87-A
- 3,29% ASUS Z87-K
- 2,17% ASUS Z87-PLUS

 

[Huba79]

Even less jobs for people. And i bet it won't mean lower prices. Questionably better quality for certain job losses. It's worth it, at least for the owners.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Reminds me of the 1994 movie Disclosure (Demi Moore / Michael Douglas)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emKcqBql4rs

where she set him up for a fail / firing when it turned out she made the production line changes that "had Malaysians pushing the chips in with their thumbs". See 0:45

That was 21 years ago.

 

[leeb2013]

Utter rubbish, manufacturers, like where I work, have been using fully automated pcb assembly for years now.

"The new production process fully automates all the steps of PCB manufacturing, which includes rolling the spools and manufacturing the MOSFETs."

You mean mosfets use to be manufactured by hand!?