Sometimes it's quicker, sometimes longer, but I watched a bare printed circuit get turned into a fully fitted and boxed motherboard in just 40 minutes. It was followed by another just a few minutes later. And then another and another. The line never stopped and wouldn't do for up to 20 hours every day. In total, all of the manufacturing lines together could potentially turn out 1.3 million motherboards every month.
That's according to Micro-Star International (aka MSI) who invited me and a raft of other tech journalists to visit its primary manufacturing site in Shenzhen, China. We were given an in-depth tour of the motherboard production lines, along with some smaller lines making AIO and mini PCs, plus some early glimpses of new models coming soon.
