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There are many main board
manufacturers building boards of various types and quality. The best
boards are made in the USA and Taiwan and Europe, but other
factories are beginning to turn out good quality boards.
Watch out for Asian countries who
have just begun to manufacture main boards, they do not have the
quality control yet we have come to expect. If you are used to
avoiding "made in Hong Kong" electronics, avoid "made in China"
because Hong Kong products are now labeled as "made in China". With
time they will get better.
Other places to watch out for are
boards made in the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar and other
Southeast Asian countries. Malaysia is getting better and Singapore
has a good tradition of electronics, but not in main board
manufacturing.
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A basic rule of thumb, as it is with
most products, "Buy Cheap, Get Cheap". Some of the big electronics
and computer firms have recently decided to make mainboards as well,
like well known processor manufacturers.
These boards are generally geared to
support their own brands and are often not as flexible as those made
by companies who built boards for a variety of processors and
options. Examples are Intel, AMD, IBM, Siemens, Philips, Mitsubishi
and others. For trouble free computing get the board as well as the
processor from these manufacturers.
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Printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing services
The following companies provide the
manufacturing of your printed circuit board, whether for prototype
or production quantities.
Consider carefully the legal aspects if you have
based your design on an existing schematic or printed circuit
board.
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