I honestly didn't like couple of things at this video. 1-) What is the brown, sticky looking dirt under the memory board at 3:20 ? 2-) Why they using their bare hands to touch memory chips even though they have anti static wrist bands at 3:50 ? Wouldn't it be more professional if a machine could do this? or even at least a plastic glow could be handle. 3-) how a human is accurate to detect errors by eye and touch whole board with bare hands? and packaging memories by hand like biscuits?
I work here (well not the place in the video but a sister site in VA). This place is a joint venture between Micron and Intel and it's a great place to work. Micron is hiring! so if you are interested go visit their website!
SD cards are big money people seriously it's a piece of plastic with a memory chip in it that cost about 0.50¢ per unit and is sold to stores for $10 each. then they resell them to you the consumer for $20 it's freaking genius. a little card that can hold upto tens of thousands of pictures. not to mention movies songs games and everything in between. some people just don't see how much this changed technology and dare I say it history possible....?
3:35 "We use very strict testing methods to make sure that you get the highest quality products"
I believe it. Have an extremely well built Lexar 16GB on my keys and been in constant use since early 2008. Thing is battered looking, scratched, discolored, faded, dirtied, dropped/soaked countless times, has its casing snapped apart and back in place many times from accidentally hitting the computer's edge, its port is crooked. But it still works as good as the day I got it.
Great video.. all the packaging is a pity.. eco-ship the chip only in a hard plastic case directly from your website at a discount? Or even without a discount, thanks.
@hanz3787 you really need to learn to read..... first of all it prints clearly on screen wafer were shipped to east asia, second, read the character, it's korean, not chinese
I work at the plant the first few scenes are filmed in, and that is in manassas Virginia very much so America. The tools have Korean writing on them because they are manufactured in japan and Korea. The process dose not go over seas untill packaging. Micron memory is indeed still made in America and is proud to be the last memory manufacture still based in the US.
I don't understand why my fellow Americans are complaining about jobs going overseas. Recently Executives from Intel have said that the cost to operate a manufacturing plant in the US is over a Billion dollars more expensive than in Asia just from regulations; Nothing to do with Labor costs.
I own a business, when it grows bigger I will also move production overseas. Americans hate business so they elect bureaucrats to bully us with regulations. We are simply going to where we are welcome.
Ok, so all you people watching this video, imagine all the movements a worker does one single time, for the recording of the video -i.e. from moment 3:53 onwards- being done by the SAME person again and again for at least 8 HOURS every SINGLE day.
@Silvros77 that is said for the US plant. I'm talking about the asian workers. For a single person, his day job is 8 hours of an automated movement again and again, and then again the next day, every day.
Visual inspection is an important way to insure quality in any high tech PCA (printed circuit assembly). Having human eyes on the product at different assembly steps catches manufacturing flaws, like skewed components and non-wetting solder joints, that occasionally occur. Having people manually put together a couple things in the process actually insures higher quality then having a 100% automated manufacturing flow.
i bought a 8bg lexar memory card for psp and it crash, i tried to return it back to where i bought it but they cannot replace the memory card, is there a way i couldhave it replace? where could it be? it's only 6 months when i bought it!
Assemble in the country that they are manufactured, reduce your ridiculously large packaging and packaging materials and I will be as impressed with the second half of the video as I was with the first half of the video - which is a very impressed!
Singapore, China, Thailand. Does it really matter? My point was that Lexar is paying a lot less by using the cheaper foreign labor markets to do the manual work and saying that it's because they are hand assemling for quality instead of quantity.
yes it does... Not all Asian countries are "cheaper foreign labor markets"
Singapore has a high quality of life, a per capita GDP on par with USA , more so if you look at the GDP(PPP), and a more equitable wealth distribution. Those factory workers probably are better off in Singapore then people doing the same job in the USA would be. So cheap labor isn't really an issue here. There are other reasons to assemble things in Asia you know...
Using gold wiring is not worth it. Common sense will tell you that there are cheaper alternatives that match the performance.
That is why Best Buy charges $50 for a 7 foot HDMI cable, when a similar one can be bought off of newegg for $2. And thats not a typo, I mean two dollars. Both have matching performance and will last just as long.
All you idiots making "hurr durr made in china" jokes need to stfu. 99% of all the things you own were made there. Ironically, most of the leading companies that make electronics were founded in Asia (Samsung, ASUS, Sony). And not just that, most of your clothes were probably made there too. I bet if you looked at your iPhone box it would say "Assembled in China". So I guess if you're too good to buy made in china products you can't really buy anything. You ignorant fucks need to get a clue.
@sentimentalsound I have to adapt to the environment. This is youtube, home of tons of stupid, ignorant people. I have to communicate in a way that they understand or else no one would take me seriously. If this was a formal discussion then obvious I would word my argument differently.
@Fo0bar1 That's because jackasses like you will buy Made in China products as if it makes no difference. If Zenith, RCA, Packard Bell did not become greedy and outsource to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, there wouldn't be a Sony or other dominant brands.
Most of the leading companies are only in Asia because of initial European and American investment. Furthermore, just because everything is made in China now, does not mean it is of quality. China mass produces low cost electronics through labor.
@Canadarm123 So you would pay more for your product if an American made it? Even if the process is the same with the same materials? Products that are 100% CHINESE from most random CHINESE companies are indeed low-quality, but you think the big companies will lower their standard on build material and quality control just because they are paying less to someone working in Asia? tl;dr if it's a reputable company the quality is the same, assembled by an American or a Chinese person.
@Fo0bar1 Well, if there was no mass-produced chinese labor products, most people would not know how cheap products could be.
But you forget, it's not as if things will be magically expensive. It comes down to supply and demand and profit margins. No one will buy an American made iphone for $2000 bucks and so Apple will have to lower their margins. If it costs Apple $200 to manufacture one in America, and $5 in China, they cannot maintain a nearly 500% cost markup.
@Fo0bar1 Also, you forget that Americans can only afford so much because of the enormous manufacturing and industry capability of the past. But much like the government, americans are spending money they will no longer have.
The loss of thousands of jobs every year, the outsourcing of nearly every type of industry means ordinary americans will have a hell of a time in the coming decades. Corporations will be making millions like always, but average citizens won't. It's already begun.
@Fo0bar1 What I mean is, you can already see what's happening with the anti-union movement happening across the states. They want you to think unions are forcing companies to move overseas, but while I am not in favor of unions, they are the only thing stopping corporations from lowering american wages to minimum at best.
Give it 30 years, you'll be hard pressed to find any company wanting to pay Americans more than $10 bucks an hour. The inevitability of globalization is this.
@Canadarm123 Fair enough. But all I was trying to say is that the final product will be the same, no matter who assembles it. I wasn't talking about how everyone is being outsourced to Asia because they are cheaper. I was aiming my comment at the general public, who still think that "made in china" automatically means a bad product, but they go home and watch shows on their made in china TV they paid over 1k for because it's from a good company. Let's just end this now we're saying diff things.
@Fo0bar1 But even then, if you look at the most high end of electronics, whether it is Sony or Samsung, they are still made in their home countries.
If it wasn't china, it'd be India, Taiwan, Mexico or Bangladesh, because there you can make an iphone by paying workers $1 a day. It's not so funny when you realize that in the past 3 decades, nearly all source of manufacture in the USA, UK, Germany, France, has moved to China. That means, in another decade or two, the loss of jobs will catch up.
@totinhastoto It doesn't matter. It's the ignorance of most people that made me post this comment. I don't care if it was made in China or Korea, the final product is the same. You think a Korean worker will make a better product than a Chinese worker if they had the same materials to work with?
@Fo0bar1 you got wrong woth 1 stuff. Sony is not an MADE IN CHINA. Nokia is not Made in China my all nokia phones are made in Hungary. do you know where Hungary is ?
@n5800xpressm How about you learn to read and spell before making yourself look like an idiot on the internet. I never said that Sony or Nokia makes their products in China. I have a Sony DSLR myself that was made in Japan. I merely said that most of the electronic products people buy were founded by Asian companies, a lot of which, do in fact make their products in China because it is CHEAPER to manufacture the SAME product.
Communism benefiting from Capitalism. As we bleed money and resources they find their primary resource as cheap labor devaluing labor in the US.. So what would you rather have? a 10$ memory card bought with welfare? or a 20$ memory card bought with money from your job. Middle class is dying, this is why.
The cards are "manufactured" in the US but "assembled" in Asia? Explain to me the difference between manufacturing and assembly when the entire device is the size of my fingernail.
@frost5000000 the actual chip, which is mainly made by machines, are made in the USA; however, when it comes to putting things together, asian countries has a lower cost because of its labor force being much more stronger, hence the assembling process is done in asian countries
@HalflingRogue They are electronically grounded. Those velcro wrist straps have a conductive surface that makes contact with the skin, and a wire that can be clipped to a grounded object. This prevents the workers from producing static that can harm the chips.
@Mrsheytun My apologies for assuming you were American. You make a good point "bro"; that ignorant and bigoted people come from all corners of the world.
Tough, the crux of my post is still accurate. You are most assuredly using components that come from Asia (including China) every day of your life. I can guarantee that any piece of consumer electronics more complicated than a calculator has a semiconductor, or a capacitor, or a resistor, or a circuit board that was manufactured in Asia.
@Mrsheytun That would be you. Because if you bought anything that contains chips of ANY kind or metal, special kinds of glass chances are it's made in Asia. So even if you don't want to buy products made in Asia you are buying product that has parts made there.
Omg what the hell is data?! Like how do we get GB or MB, ahhh I mind fucked myself! How the hell is digital data even real? The earth already has the elements to create data? Is bytes apart of silicon or something? Anybody with information on this cause my brain is like warped
I like how all the manual labor is done in China and the excuse is, that products are "assembled and tested by hand to assure the finest quality". Ha ha! Nice Lexar!
@fluxbios Haha, yeah, it's not like robots couldn't replace the humans and do at least as good a job. I guess robots are more expensive than hiring Chinese workers...
With that said, I'm very impressed by the robots. Automation is the future.
@fluxbios So you must have missed the part where they say that the plant in the US employs thousonds. Asians can use work too. Bet if it was ALL made in the US and cost 3X as much, the comment would be "Oh its so expensive"
You dont get to have your cake and eat it to. It can't be Cheap, Commercial Free, Unlimited, Instantly Available, and on Demand, all the time. = Something has to give.
@1Lyc They also complain about 18 metallic elements that China has almost complete monopoly over, which China is already exporting at ridiculously low profit margin just to appease the US.
@fluxbios if you look closer you will find that the manual labour are done in korea. the warning labels are all in korean and whats more the engraved text on the card reads "made in korea"
@Mrsheytun Really? Nothing you own is from Asia? I hope the computer you sent that from is in a library or something, because the components are certainly made in Asia. Also, half the shit you buy in your Amurican Walmart is from Asia as well.
This is a matter of time. Loosing jobs and stuff. We'll go to chinese to work. They have the strongest sistem in the world now. Kinda communism-capitalism. They rule the world......shortly.
@Mrsheytun You are just plain stupid and ignorant. Many if not most things are made in Asian countries. If not the product it self, then at least some of the materials.
because living is a team effort and greedy americans seem to forget that. nothing wrong with making a fair profit. but america companies just plain rape money out of people. look at OJ for instance, try to find a 64 ounce jug of it anywhere.
From 5:58 onwards, it is so lame
Yeungerz 2 days ago
my lexar usb flash says made in china
Calikokatspiano 4 days ago
I hope they were grounded before touching the curcit board
seamonkeys12y 1 week ago
Made in China. Enjoyed in America
SprodeBoy 3 weeks ago
@SprodeBoy Korea.
pudidotdk 3 weeks ago
wth china
CalebFilmsPresent 1 month ago
seeing this video makes me wanna buy a Lexar card for sure !!
MrDanCartell 1 month ago
Who & what are the artist and the song title?
swampwiz 1 month ago
one of the sexiest vids I have seen in a long time
I don't use anything else than Lexar
ubuntumobutu 2 months ago
wow... great !
Manjula009 2 months ago
I honestly didn't like couple of things at this video. 1-) What is the brown, sticky looking dirt under the memory board at 3:20 ? 2-) Why they using their bare hands to touch memory chips even though they have anti static wrist bands at 3:50 ? Wouldn't it be more professional if a machine could do this? or even at least a plastic glow could be handle. 3-) how a human is accurate to detect errors by eye and touch whole board with bare hands? and packaging memories by hand like biscuits?
iddqds 2 months ago
@iddqds well they probably figured out the best way to do those tasks a long ago.otherwise it wouldn't become such a huge company.
Nadeeja94 2 months ago
@iddqds you sir should watch this video again and consider what you just said. Its all being explained in this vid.
lynnaxful 2 months ago
@iddqds Beacuse Asians are cheaper than Machines.
Baxtexx 1 month ago
nice factory
ipopd123 2 months ago
Such a Satisfying feeling. I now want to work in a company where they put memorycards in.
Nature1400 3 months ago
Good organization, but i've never heard of it :D
hakersification 4 months ago
SSSSSSSS DDDDDDDDDD
chaghar 4 months ago
This makes me want to buy Lexar
halffaceshow 5 months ago
This video was awesome. Lexar isn't my brand of choice, but I enjoy seeing how things are made. Great job on the video!
yoplaitmajor 5 months ago
I work here (well not the place in the video but a sister site in VA). This place is a joint venture between Micron and Intel and it's a great place to work. Micron is hiring! so if you are interested go visit their website!
soljahgurl1975 5 months ago
The music needs some Cow Bells!
anthnymnty 5 months ago
Cool. I'd love to visit a place like this :]
RPGash 5 months ago
God that is awesome :) Good job on the vid!
Millsie18 6 months ago 2
Great video! I'd like more informations on the building of the wafer though
NEVdD 6 months ago
SD cards are big money people seriously it's a piece of plastic with a memory chip in it that cost about 0.50¢ per unit and is sold to stores for $10 each. then they resell them to you the consumer for $20 it's freaking genius. a little card that can hold upto tens of thousands of pictures. not to mention movies songs games and everything in between. some people just don't see how much this changed technology and dare I say it history possible....?
METALMAN4Wii 6 months ago
Best product-being-made video out there!
valordk 6 months ago
OH MY GOD!!!!! 3:15 ~ 3:22 WOAH IMAGINE THAT MACHINE COULD FAP!!!
FunkyKidYush 7 months ago
Technology is amazing. Watching those robots do their work is mesmorizing.
Rambowjo2 8 months ago
3:35 "We use very strict testing methods to make sure that you get the highest quality products"
I believe it. Have an extremely well built Lexar 16GB on my keys and been in constant use since early 2008. Thing is battered looking, scratched, discolored, faded, dirtied, dropped/soaked countless times, has its casing snapped apart and back in place many times from accidentally hitting the computer's edge, its port is crooked. But it still works as good as the day I got it.
FortitudeOfHeaven 8 months ago
Why the assembly lines are all Asians?
joriesong 8 months ago
wow Utah asian ppl town ?
TheKaukas 8 months ago
reminds me of portal
Nimerbushnaq 8 months ago
anyone remember wall-e when you see the robots moving in the usa plant?
krankolojigd 8 months ago
Why did the etching on the SD cards say made in Korea? I thought they were sent to China for assembly.
deweys 8 months ago
Great video.. all the packaging is a pity.. eco-ship the chip only in a hard plastic case directly from your website at a discount? Or even without a discount, thanks.
BravoCharlieTV 9 months ago
is this music a real piece with a name or just created for this video? :)
moomen2009 9 months ago
Outstanding video Lexar!
These guys really do make outstanding memory products.
Anton338 9 months ago
the cleaner room reminded me wall.e >.<
vripita 10 months ago
that's gr8!!!
gavriliadis 10 months ago
Watching this video on MUTE and instead playing "Such Great Heights" as background music seems a much more better experience :)
fivefishdiy 10 months ago
This is the BEST FACTORY I ever seen!!!
astoniz 10 months ago 23
Utah factory got Chinese people working there???
hanz3787 10 months ago
@hanz3787 you really need to learn to read..... first of all it prints clearly on screen wafer were shipped to east asia, second, read the character, it's korean, not chinese
hsusam006 9 months ago
I work at the plant the first few scenes are filmed in, and that is in manassas Virginia very much so America. The tools have Korean writing on them because they are manufactured in japan and Korea. The process dose not go over seas untill packaging. Micron memory is indeed still made in America and is proud to be the last memory manufacture still based in the US.
cjbacks 10 months ago
This video looks awesome in 360p!
PlayActiv 10 months ago
what is wors all pakaging ues more materil and energay whna corent item
kurmis999 11 months ago
I don't understand why my fellow Americans are complaining about jobs going overseas. Recently Executives from Intel have said that the cost to operate a manufacturing plant in the US is over a Billion dollars more expensive than in Asia just from regulations; Nothing to do with Labor costs.
I own a business, when it grows bigger I will also move production overseas. Americans hate business so they elect bureaucrats to bully us with regulations. We are simply going to where we are welcome.
deadbutmoving 11 months ago
Ok, so all you people watching this video, imagine all the movements a worker does one single time, for the recording of the video -i.e. from moment 3:53 onwards- being done by the SAME person again and again for at least 8 HOURS every SINGLE day.
gaprilis 11 months ago 6
@gaprilis 24 hours a day. that plant runs non-stop, 365.
Silvros77 11 months ago
@Silvros77 that is said for the US plant. I'm talking about the asian workers. For a single person, his day job is 8 hours of an automated movement again and again, and then again the next day, every day.
gaprilis 11 months ago
Now, I love Lexar.
Iaguillo 1 year ago
3:15 looks AMAZING
tazztone 1 year ago
Legal!!
christyamdelima 1 year ago
MODER TIMES!!
Crispartel 1 year ago
Beautiful.
GregWatermann 1 year ago
There are many Asians people for a Utah factory!
fotostefanro 1 year ago 2
@fotostefanro Read what's written at 2:09 again.
Okand2 1 year ago
@Okand2 yes, you are right!
fotostefanro 1 year ago
@fluxbios
They didnt lie at all...
Visual inspection is an important way to insure quality in any high tech PCA (printed circuit assembly). Having human eyes on the product at different assembly steps catches manufacturing flaws, like skewed components and non-wetting solder joints, that occasionally occur. Having people manually put together a couple things in the process actually insures higher quality then having a 100% automated manufacturing flow.
pocadotty 1 year ago 3
i bought a 8bg lexar memory card for psp and it crash, i tried to return it back to where i bought it but they cannot replace the memory card, is there a way i couldhave it replace? where could it be? it's only 6 months when i bought it!
am040571 1 year ago
Assemble in the country that they are manufactured, reduce your ridiculously large packaging and packaging materials and I will be as impressed with the second half of the video as I was with the first half of the video - which is a very impressed!
gogocartoons 1 year ago
Samsung also makes memory chips in the US Lexar.
ConceptVBS 1 year ago
I think this is all so beautiful...the labor is the last thing on my mind, GO HUMAN RACE!!!:)
111sunder 1 year ago
I never thought it is so high-tech !
pauligdork 1 year ago
@RossClanUSA lol
Ckhris28 1 year ago
WTF? First time posting a comment on YouTube. Comment system blows!
RossClanUSA 1 year ago
Singapore, China, Thailand. Does it really matter? My point was that Lexar is paying a lot less by using the cheaper foreign labor markets to do the manual work and saying that it's because they are hand assemling for quality instead of quantity.
fluxbios 1 year ago
@fluxbios
yes it does... Not all Asian countries are "cheaper foreign labor markets"
Singapore has a high quality of life, a per capita GDP on par with USA , more so if you look at the GDP(PPP), and a more equitable wealth distribution. Those factory workers probably are better off in Singapore then people doing the same job in the USA would be. So cheap labor isn't really an issue here. There are other reasons to assemble things in Asia you know...
pocadotty 1 year ago
Made in the US of A... by robots.
hazeel11 1 year ago
Funny that the only American in this video was the consumer..
vdubs4life1964 1 year ago
Using gold wiring is not worth it. Common sense will tell you that there are cheaper alternatives that match the performance.
That is why Best Buy charges $50 for a 7 foot HDMI cable, when a similar one can be bought off of newegg for $2. And thats not a typo, I mean two dollars. Both have matching performance and will last just as long.
javabaja 1 year ago
LOL at the typo at 1:44.... the only company that *manufacturers* memory chips in the US
energymc22 1 year ago 2
All you idiots making "hurr durr made in china" jokes need to stfu. 99% of all the things you own were made there. Ironically, most of the leading companies that make electronics were founded in Asia (Samsung, ASUS, Sony). And not just that, most of your clothes were probably made there too. I bet if you looked at your iPhone box it would say "Assembled in China". So I guess if you're too good to buy made in china products you can't really buy anything. You ignorant fucks need to get a clue.
Fo0bar1 1 year ago 56
@Fo0bar1 mate I think that you have to look within yourself and find the reason for your negativity.
it may harm you in the long run. check yourself because your way of communicating is damaging...
why would anyone take your word for anything if you are rude and full of hatred.. life' short dude.
sentimentalsound 9 months ago
@sentimentalsound I have to adapt to the environment. This is youtube, home of tons of stupid, ignorant people. I have to communicate in a way that they understand or else no one would take me seriously. If this was a formal discussion then obvious I would word my argument differently.
Fo0bar1 9 months ago
@Fo0bar1 mate I think that you have to look within yourself and find the reason for your negativity.
it may harm you in the long run. check yourself because your way of communicating is damaging...
why would anyone take your word for anything if you are rude and full of hatred.. life' short dude.
sentimentalsound 9 months ago
@Fo0bar1 That's because jackasses like you will buy Made in China products as if it makes no difference. If Zenith, RCA, Packard Bell did not become greedy and outsource to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, there wouldn't be a Sony or other dominant brands.
Most of the leading companies are only in Asia because of initial European and American investment. Furthermore, just because everything is made in China now, does not mean it is of quality. China mass produces low cost electronics through labor.
Canadarm123 8 months ago
@Canadarm123 So you would pay more for your product if an American made it? Even if the process is the same with the same materials? Products that are 100% CHINESE from most random CHINESE companies are indeed low-quality, but you think the big companies will lower their standard on build material and quality control just because they are paying less to someone working in Asia? tl;dr if it's a reputable company the quality is the same, assembled by an American or a Chinese person.
Fo0bar1 8 months ago
@Fo0bar1 Well, if there was no mass-produced chinese labor products, most people would not know how cheap products could be.
But you forget, it's not as if things will be magically expensive. It comes down to supply and demand and profit margins. No one will buy an American made iphone for $2000 bucks and so Apple will have to lower their margins. If it costs Apple $200 to manufacture one in America, and $5 in China, they cannot maintain a nearly 500% cost markup.
Canadarm123 8 months ago
@Fo0bar1 Also, you forget that Americans can only afford so much because of the enormous manufacturing and industry capability of the past. But much like the government, americans are spending money they will no longer have.
The loss of thousands of jobs every year, the outsourcing of nearly every type of industry means ordinary americans will have a hell of a time in the coming decades. Corporations will be making millions like always, but average citizens won't. It's already begun.
Canadarm123 8 months ago
@Fo0bar1 What I mean is, you can already see what's happening with the anti-union movement happening across the states. They want you to think unions are forcing companies to move overseas, but while I am not in favor of unions, they are the only thing stopping corporations from lowering american wages to minimum at best.
Give it 30 years, you'll be hard pressed to find any company wanting to pay Americans more than $10 bucks an hour. The inevitability of globalization is this.
Canadarm123 8 months ago
@Canadarm123 Fair enough. But all I was trying to say is that the final product will be the same, no matter who assembles it. I wasn't talking about how everyone is being outsourced to Asia because they are cheaper. I was aiming my comment at the general public, who still think that "made in china" automatically means a bad product, but they go home and watch shows on their made in china TV they paid over 1k for because it's from a good company. Let's just end this now we're saying diff things.
Fo0bar1 8 months ago
@Fo0bar1 But even then, if you look at the most high end of electronics, whether it is Sony or Samsung, they are still made in their home countries.
If it wasn't china, it'd be India, Taiwan, Mexico or Bangladesh, because there you can make an iphone by paying workers $1 a day. It's not so funny when you realize that in the past 3 decades, nearly all source of manufacture in the USA, UK, Germany, France, has moved to China. That means, in another decade or two, the loss of jobs will catch up.
Canadarm123 8 months ago
And by the way, those memorys are not even made in China, its in South Korea
totinhastoto 6 months ago
@totinhastoto It doesn't matter. It's the ignorance of most people that made me post this comment. I don't care if it was made in China or Korea, the final product is the same. You think a Korean worker will make a better product than a Chinese worker if they had the same materials to work with?
Fo0bar1 6 months ago
@Fo0bar1 No, im just sayin :)
totinhastoto 6 months ago
@Fo0bar1 you got wrong woth 1 stuff. Sony is not an MADE IN CHINA. Nokia is not Made in China my all nokia phones are made in Hungary. do you know where Hungary is ?
n5800xpressm 6 months ago
@n5800xpressm How about you learn to read and spell before making yourself look like an idiot on the internet. I never said that Sony or Nokia makes their products in China. I have a Sony DSLR myself that was made in Japan. I merely said that most of the electronic products people buy were founded by Asian companies, a lot of which, do in fact make their products in China because it is CHEAPER to manufacture the SAME product.
Fo0bar1 6 months ago
@n5800xpressm And why in the world would NOKIA, a Japanese Company, make their phones in Hungary? rofl why did I even bother replying to you.
Fo0bar1 6 months ago
@Fo0bar1 I don't know why anyone would care where the product is made since America doesn't make a damn thing now.
ave383 4 months ago
Genial!!!
bigmazinger 1 year ago
I just like the little pink "finger condoms" on that one chick. That's normal, right?
minniephatz 1 year ago 3
wow, there are more racist/ideology-douchbag comments than admiring the technology!
ngecenk 1 year ago 4
Communism benefiting from Capitalism. As we bleed money and resources they find their primary resource as cheap labor devaluing labor in the US.. So what would you rather have? a 10$ memory card bought with welfare? or a 20$ memory card bought with money from your job. Middle class is dying, this is why.
djbro16 1 year ago
@djbro16 that was korea, not china
IamNotaThreat 1 year ago
The cards are "manufactured" in the US but "assembled" in Asia? Explain to me the difference between manufacturing and assembly when the entire device is the size of my fingernail.
frost5000000 1 year ago
@frost5000000 the actual chip, which is mainly made by machines, are made in the USA; however, when it comes to putting things together, asian countries has a lower cost because of its labor force being much more stronger, hence the assembling process is done in asian countries
o0J4Y0o 9 months ago
I like the music, especially the second half of the video.
spikebythesea 1 year ago
Lord.
Whenever there's americans on a forum or writing comments.... You just know it.
Lol, get a education you idiots, stop sitting by the tv eating crap and get an education.
Allexz 1 year ago
Is the cable attached to the wristwatches (around 4:00 for example) to ensure the employees don't take breaks??
Mikester1982 1 year ago
@Mikester1982
It's grounding.
They also have special plastic floors (ESD) which is not generating static electricity.
It's for protecting those sensitive electronic parts.
opeth84 1 year ago 15
ESD straps
RossClanUSA 1 year ago
@Mikester1982 - ESD straps
RossClanUSA 1 year ago
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RossClanUSA 1 year ago
@Mikester1982 its for static..
Itismevignesh 11 months ago
its not a clean room once there's human inside
andyrccar 1 year ago
Nice overview. We still grow the crystals and dope and etch the chips in the U.S.
kd1s 1 year ago 2
What's the name of the second song? starting at 1:58
mininukinfutsTER 1 year ago
amazing factory, beatiful system process!
markhez2 1 year ago 3
THEN SENT TO ASIA????? THAT MADE ME PAUSE THE VIDEO,THROW UP MY BREAKFAST,CUSS,THEN DELETE,,,I DON/T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE,OF THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STIFFIN44 1 year ago
i only see japonese peoples in this factory ^^...where are the black?
MuMortal 1 year ago
Why use humans at all? So they don't revolt? From what I saw machines could do all steps of the process.
tronfm 1 year ago 4
used a SD memory card from Lexar once...and did this mistake on a hiking trip. Lost all the photos. I'm never gonna use Lexar again.
fiintzu 1 year ago
@MaceStoner Ah, well then. Thank you, and sorry for my earlier tone.
HalflingRogue 1 year ago
Is it just me, or are those women TETHERED to their workplaces? Way to fail, mass labour.
HalflingRogue 1 year ago
@HalflingRogue They are electronically grounded. Those velcro wrist straps have a conductive surface that makes contact with the skin, and a wire that can be clipped to a grounded object. This prevents the workers from producing static that can harm the chips.
MaceStoner 1 year ago 3
Lexar, essa empresa é legal! Tem até canal no youtube!
fbaugusto 1 year ago
Muito, mas MUITO maneiro o vídeo!
vinipontesUFRJ 1 year ago
@Mrsheytun My apologies for assuming you were American. You make a good point "bro"; that ignorant and bigoted people come from all corners of the world.
Tough, the crux of my post is still accurate. You are most assuredly using components that come from Asia (including China) every day of your life. I can guarantee that any piece of consumer electronics more complicated than a calculator has a semiconductor, or a capacitor, or a resistor, or a circuit board that was manufactured in Asia.
Pelicanization 1 year ago
@Mrsheytun That would be you. Because if you bought anything that contains chips of ANY kind or metal, special kinds of glass chances are it's made in Asia. So even if you don't want to buy products made in Asia you are buying product that has parts made there.
mytube232 1 year ago
I wonder if this factory was programmed using Occam. If it was, we can eliminate the factory designer for such a poor design choice.
LukeusMaximus1 1 year ago
some of those jobs at the end were unnecessary...robots can package and test quicker and aswell.
By the way all those millions of resources for a shitty camera.......we should prioritise resources for more epic things
3tangle3 1 year ago
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Impressive, a lot of people are going to lose their jobs.
behnamasid 1 year ago
Muito legal, impressionante a montagem!
madebyjr 1 year ago
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kwandelsmith 1 year ago
9 people were scared by the probing fingers of the red squooshy thing
CorporalDanLives 1 year ago
Omg what the hell is data?! Like how do we get GB or MB, ahhh I mind fucked myself! How the hell is digital data even real? The earth already has the elements to create data? Is bytes apart of silicon or something? Anybody with information on this cause my brain is like warped
CloudStrife2k6 1 year ago
wow great vid! I will definitely look at buying Lexar products since they are made in the US!
Ao1iGamer 1 year ago
Meanwhile, Sandisk are making reliable memory cards that don't go corrupt after a month.
shortinos 1 year ago
9 people work in a technology assembly factory in Asia, 20 hours a day for less than a dollar a day.
Frap357 1 year ago
Itt: Misunderstanding of economics.
270dingo 1 year ago
so... made in China? :D
jeffrey3301 1 year ago 2
I want to work there... hell, I want to live in that factory!
traxonja 1 year ago
This is computer porn in its finest!
toutagamon 1 year ago
"Would anyone have watched 6 minutes of any other ad?" You mean like Apple unibody Macbook "we carve it out of a single piece of aluminum" ones?
thundt 1 year ago
poor asian assembly people, they must hate that job! imagine doing that same shit all day!!!!!!ARARRGGh
PIECE2YOURMOTHA 1 year ago
OMG, I SAW A SPEC OF DUST!!!, HURRY CLEAAAAAANNNN ITTTTT!!!!!!
OOsk8jpOO 1 year ago
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OOsk8jpOO 1 year ago
holy.shit.
BowHunt1229 1 year ago
WOW!!
NationalPro 1 year ago
This is totally jaw-dropping!
sexynerdgirlcom 1 year ago
CRAP!!! :O
RedHeadMusselman 1 year ago
amazing
10A7mad10 1 year ago
The machines make the technology . . . the technology powers the machines . . . ahhhhh skynet!
WindyCityNovelties 1 year ago 47
@WindyCityNovelties but the Humans create the machines and design the technology^^ (:
LTmasterLT 1 year ago
I like how all the manual labor is done in China and the excuse is, that products are "assembled and tested by hand to assure the finest quality". Ha ha! Nice Lexar!
fluxbios 1 year ago 54
@fluxbios Haha, yeah, it's not like robots couldn't replace the humans and do at least as good a job. I guess robots are more expensive than hiring Chinese workers...
With that said, I'm very impressed by the robots. Automation is the future.
LunchAnderson 1 year ago
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MaceStoner 1 year ago
@fluxbios
It says "Asia" not China. I believe that manufacturing facility is in Singapore...
pocadotty 1 year ago
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nkkarren 1 year ago
@fluxbios So you must have missed the part where they say that the plant in the US employs thousonds. Asians can use work too. Bet if it was ALL made in the US and cost 3X as much, the comment would be "Oh its so expensive"
You dont get to have your cake and eat it to. It can't be Cheap, Commercial Free, Unlimited, Instantly Available, and on Demand, all the time. = Something has to give.
rcphotoweb 1 year ago
@fluxbios and then the americans complain about chinas economy while they outsourced their own job potential. Ha ha! Nice America!
1Lyc 1 year ago
@1Lyc They also complain about 18 metallic elements that China has almost complete monopoly over, which China is already exporting at ridiculously low profit margin just to appease the US.
God I love this shit-stain country.
OfficeThug 1 year ago
@fluxbios if you look closer you will find that the manual labour are done in korea. the warning labels are all in korean and whats more the engraved text on the card reads "made in korea"
LamPorFer 11 months ago
What a whole bunch of shitty jobs...
Calcard94 1 year ago 3
@Mrsheytun Really? Nothing you own is from Asia? I hope the computer you sent that from is in a library or something, because the components are certainly made in Asia. Also, half the shit you buy in your Amurican Walmart is from Asia as well.
Pelicanization 1 year ago
This is a matter of time. Loosing jobs and stuff. We'll go to chinese to work. They have the strongest sistem in the world now. Kinda communism-capitalism. They rule the world......shortly.
aximisu 1 year ago
@aximisu loosing? sistem? And to think that you are our future. It's no wonder that emerging economies are edging out the US.
Pelicanization 1 year ago 2
@Mrsheytun You are just plain stupid and ignorant. Many if not most things are made in Asian countries. If not the product it self, then at least some of the materials.
mytube232 1 year ago
Amazing!!!!!
It's alien tech!
BJoe21 1 year ago
Holy shit SKYNET is just around the corner ...! ;))
eminescinescu 1 year ago
lol now i'm looking at my flash drive all impressed like
chronikuad 1 year ago 2
And why the work goes to asian contries when is our work?
aximisu 1 year ago
@aximisu it costs less. :) It's simple as that.
mytube232 1 year ago
wearing condoms at 4:22 ?
nzbbs 1 year ago
@nzbbs moisture finger....
zyggix 1 year ago
Great video.
nbbarnes 1 year ago
is incredible
alejandrogomez91 1 year ago
exelente...
wiZkii 1 year ago
anybody know this song?
DarkFox365 1 year ago
because living is a team effort and greedy americans seem to forget that. nothing wrong with making a fair profit. but america companies just plain rape money out of people. look at OJ for instance, try to find a 64 ounce jug of it anywhere.
papatooth1 1 year ago