Building a Motherboard

[GreenDance]

I know this may seem an odd question, but I would like to setup a company employing people to build budget motherboards, where would one start in this line?

Thank You.

[elliotn]

thats interesting

[madjr]

I know this may seem an odd question, but I would like to setup a company employing people to build budget motherboards, where would one start in this line?

Thank You.

well you could get some ideas of the types of mother/circuit boards used in different devices:

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/


usually intel, amd, arm, nvidia, VIA, etc have white papers for you to get started

there may also be DIY kits available, etc

good luck

[cariboo]

The way most companies do it is to setup a design and engineering office, then contract out the actual manufacturing to one of the Chinese plants already setup to do the work.

[Maheriano]

Find out who does the bulk of manufacturing for most of the chipsets. I'm pretty sure most motherboards with onboard sound use a RealTek AC97 chipset and most video is either Nvidia or Viae. Then look at memory modules, bridges and whatever else is on the board. Get a cost estimate of all the components, a map for laying them out and have it manufactured.

[GreenDance]

Thank You very much for all the replies.

[Frogs Hair]

bad link sorry
(http://www.foxxcon.com)

[GreenDance]

After spending some time looking into this, I think it may be a better idea to bulk buy motherboards. I've been told the more purchased, the cheaper they are.

Something I would like to get involved with though is software development for Linux/Ubuntu, I have a few ideas :).