During and following large Asian trade shows like Computex, you'll find various articles popping up from hacks who have had the chance to tour the factories and labs of various manufacturers. For example, we've already brought you some exclusive pictures and benchmarks from inside ASUSTeK's labs. Now it's the turn of Anandtech, who have been on a tour of Kingston's Taiwan manufacturing facility.
The biggest surprise for us was the complete 100% final testing that Kingston uses for all DIMMs. We expected a statistical sampling method based on ongoing failure analysis to something like a Six Sigma confidence level. What we didn't expect was the 100% inspection Kingston assures us is a part of all their memory manufacturing. Kingston is very proud of the fact they have pioneered many of the processes and QA procedures that are now in common use in the memory industry, and it turns out that 100% final testing is a procedure commonly used by many of Kingston's competitors in the memory market.
It's a good article if you're interested in what goes into making the parts for your PC, so check it out.