Intel Reveals the End is Near for its Desktop Motherboards

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Intel has released a statement in which it announces that it will be leaving the design and manufacturing of desktop motherboards, leaving the field open for other motherboard manufacturers to fill in the gaps.

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[caskachan]

That means not producing Motherboards and lettign third parties take care of it right?

 

[TheBigTroll]

their boards werent that good anyways. wont miss it

 

[anxiousinfusion]

[citation][nom]caskachan[/nom]That means not producing Motherboards and lettign third parties take care of it right?[/citation]
Yes, and most builders don't seem to buy Intel boards anyway so this isn't such a blow to the community.

 

[festerovic]

There was a time when Intel motherboards represented high quality, great business solutions. Running business software on NT on pentium 3 boards, it was usually a lot easier to stick with intel for full compatibility. I haven't experienced anything like that in a while, so I might agree with them that their value as a board maker has declined. I think they are right, 3rd parties can make equivalent products, probably better too.

 

[Guest]

Always went with Asus or MSI anyway.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

This shouldn't be that big of a deal. I'm not sure I'm aware of anyone who actually used their motherboards. The design and performance of the products from their top board partners are almost always superior, especially recently.

 

[festerovic]

[citation][nom]anxiousinfusion[/nom]Yes, and most builders don't seem to buy Intel boards anyway so this isn't such a blow to the community.[/citation]
most companies buying workstations would likely choose intel over cheaper manufacturers like ECS, foxconn, jetway, etc. Businesses account for the big slice in the market, not system builders.

 

[Guest]

not a big deal for the enthusiast market, dont think Ive ever purchased an Intel branded MB.

 

[Onihikage]

No doubt they'd get back into the market if they felt there was a need, but since there currently isn't, it's smart of them to devote those resources to other departments.

 

[Guest]

it seems like intel boards were notorious for being overpriced compared to other manufacturers

 

[ALANMAN]

I don't believe anyone is counting this as a loss, their motherboards were shit compared to other brands.

 

[WithoutWeakness]

So much for all of the people that were whining at the rumor about Intel going BGA and cutting out 3rd party motherboard manufacturers completely.

 

[bigdragon]

My experience with Intel motherboards is that they are overpriced and missing features that competitors provide on their products. Most egregious is an Intel motherboard I bought last year that lacked virtualization support in the BIOS. Intel promotes that feature yet left it off several key motherboard models. Inexcusable. Nothing of value is lost by Intel leaving the business.

 

[bak0n]

Now if they said "Intel will stop making chipsets" I'd be a little more concerned.

 

[Tmanishere]

Sounds kinda familiar...

2008: Ron Fosner, an Intel Graphics and Gaming Technologist, claims that there will "probably be no need" in purchasing a dedicated graphics card in a short while.

Bwahahahahahahahaa! Wake me up when they stop exaggerating.

 

[bustapr]

oh toms writers, you scared the shit out of me with that title. Those old rumors of embedded CPUs flew through my head.

 

[A Bad Day]

I think one of the reasons why Intel is pulling out because they plan on shrinking the motherboard into a die small enough for a standard CPU package.

Heck, they already added voltage regulators to their CPU die, and plan on incorporating the southbridge chip into the successor of Haswell.

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]Tmanishere[/nom]Sounds kinda familiar...2008: Ron Fosner, an Intel Graphics and Gaming Technologist, claims that there will "probably be no need" in purchasing a dedicated graphics card in a short while.Bwahahahahahahahaa! Wake me up when they stop exaggerating.[/citation]

Intel also claimed that Haswell's IGP will rival Nivida's GTX 650M, according to Anandtech...

 

[Soda-88]

Good. Their motherboards were up to par with their brand in price but not performance/features.

 

[cpatel1987]

Author commentary = amusing: "leaving the field open for other motherboard manufacturers to fill in the gaps." Their mobos never made a significant dent in the market to begin with.

 

[A Bad Day]

For anyone who accused me of lying with Haswell's integrated voltage regulator:

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/29951-haswell-will-have-an-integrated-voltage-regulator

For anyone who accused me of lying with Broadwell's integrated south-bridge chip:

http://www.pcper.com/category/tags/broadwell

And for the GPU comparison:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6600/intel-haswell-gt3e-gpu-performance-compared-to-nvidias-geforce-gt-650m

 

[lradunovic77]

And that would be end of Intel

 

[Guest]

Intel makes motherboards? I thought Foxconn made Intel and IBMs motherboards as well as others.

 

[AndrewMD]

Some of you kiddie basement computer makes are funny! Back in my day we used Intel Motherboards for our workstations and server customers. Why, simple, because it was backed with a 3 to 5 year warranty with instant hot swap. Intel provided our techs training and roadmaps for all their products and also provided free components for us to build demo models. When Intel boards were not available for certain applications, we would use Asus or AOpen since they also gave us 3 year hot swap warranties.

When your clients are looking for reliability, nothing else compared!