ECS Factory Tour in ShenZhen, China

ECMS (ECS Manufacturing) Factory

This factory consists in a complex containing three buildings, called 5, 20 and 26. Building 5 was not operational yet (is still waiting for government approval) and because of that we didn’t visit it. Building 20, which the majority of ECS and PCChips motherboards are manufactured, has 10 floors and is gigantic. We also visited Building 26, which has six floors and two floors are used for notebooks and systems manufacturing. The other floors are also used for motherboard manufacturing.

Figure 6: Building 20, seen from the top of Building 26.

Figure 7: Building 26, seen from the top of Building 20.

The total manufacturing capacity of this ECS complex is of 2.5 million motherboards per month. Currently they are manufacturing 2 million motherboards per month. It is important to note that until 2001 ECS was the number one motherboard manufacturer in the world, being surpassed by ASUS in 2002. So, today ECS is the number two and ASUS is the number 1 in number of manufactured motherboards per year. ECS guys expect to recover the top position very soon.

Building 20

Below we show some pictures of Building 20. As we said, this factory is gigantic and its hard to show its real size through pictures. But we’ll try. In Figure 8 we have its elevator, which is decorated with motherboards (a nerd’s dream, huh?) and on the hallways we saw tons of boxes with ECS, PCChips and Matsonic motherboards (Matsonic motherboards are in fact PCChips motherboards with a different name and our photos prove this).

Figure 8: Building 20 elevator.

Figure 9: Boxes of PCChips motherboards.

Figure 10: For the skeptics that didn’t believe that Matsonic is PCChips…