No More Intel Motherboards For Desktop
Bangalore: Intel, the chip maker, is planning to fade out from the traditional desktop motherboard business, as it centers its resources on mobile products.
"We disclosed internally today that Intel's Desktop Motherboard Business will begin slowly ramping down over the course of the next three years," said the company in a note. Eventually, Intel is trying to devote its resources towards Ultrabooks, tablets and phones rather than the PC system which was considered to be the Best Buys of the World at a certain point of time.
Further, Intel said, "The internal talent and experience of twenty years in the boards business is being redistributed to address emerging new form factors.”
Although Intel addresses “emerging”, the designs will mostly be mobiles rather than the desktops. With the launch of Intel’s upcoming “Haswell” chip generation in summer, the company will stop expanding its business in Desktop boards.
The products like the tiny Intel NUC board and the all-in-one is in budding stages in the mobile world. Even though Intel stops its production of Desktop boards, Asus and Gigabyte, considered being the trendsetters as motherboard makers are expected to actively participate in the market.
Intel will continue to create high-performance chips for the extreme performance systems. The company made this official disclosure following the rumors that Intel would stop creating board connectors like Land Grid Array (LGA) Socket for desktops after the arrival of future generation processors beyond Haswell, codenamed Broadwell. However, Intel refused to remark on these rumors.
