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Gareth Halfacree · 23rd Jan 2013, 10:09

Concentrating on NUC and Ultrabook instead.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardwar...motherboards/1

cave_diver · 23rd Jan 2013, 10:17

"it's clear that Intel feels its efforts would be concentrated elsewhere"

"would be better" or "should be"?

Gareth Halfacree · 23rd Jan 2013, 10:22

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Originally Posted by cave_diver

"it's clear that Intel feels its efforts would be concentrated elsewhere"
"would be better" or "should be"?

Better. I seem to be dropping words left, right and centre at the moment - fixed, ta!

bowman · 23rd Jan 2013, 10:24

It's our fault, apparently 'no one' buys real computers any more.

Lance · 23rd Jan 2013, 10:32

Is this really a bad sign? Companies concentrating their efforts to what they do best is what keeps businesses alive, the companies that haven't are the ones now dying.

Gareth Halfacree · 23rd Jan 2013, 10:34

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Originally Posted by Lance

10cm or 100mm..... 100cm is quite a large board.

Note the little superscript two: 100cm² = 10cm x 10cm, which is the precise size of the NUC board.

Lance · 23rd Jan 2013, 10:45

No. You're thinking of "100 square cm" not "100 cm squared".

10cm² does that for you. Feel free to delete this post once you've read it, sorry to be a stickler.

Gareth Halfacree · 23rd Jan 2013, 10:49

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Originally Posted by Lance

No. You're thinking of "100 square cm" not "100 cm squared".

Damnit, you're right. I *always* have a blind spot for "square centimetres" and "centimetres squared." Fixed, ta!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lance

Feel free to delete this post once you've read it, sorry to be a stickler.

No need to delete anything: when I'm wrong, I'm happy to hold my hands up to it.

Lance · 23rd Jan 2013, 10:56

No worries.

I am interested to see how this plays out for them. Company evolution can often be a really good thing, stagnation in a boom leads to losses in the future. Doesn't bode well for AMD though that Intel are still keeping a close eye on the ball.

NethLyn · 23rd Jan 2013, 10:58

It'll be more interesting to see who Dell picks as its main Intel motherboard supplier when the time comes, they're the only PC firm I can remember that nearly always took the Intel mobo to go with the chips.

TheDodoKiller · 23rd Jan 2013, 10:59

Did anyone actually buy Intel boards? From what I remember, they generally have less features, yet cost more than other manufacturers.

But yeah, Intel sticking to what they do best isn't a bad thing. It's stupid not to.

RichCreedy · 23rd Jan 2013, 11:06

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Originally Posted by TheDodoKiller

Did anyone actually buy Intel boards? From what I remember, they generally have less features, yet cost more than other manufacturers.

But yeah, Intel sticking to what they do best isn't a bad thing. It's stupid not to.

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Its boards are regularly chosen for reasons of compatibility and build quality, but rarely on features

did you miss this

Xlog · 23rd Jan 2013, 11:17

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Originally Posted by TheDodoKiller

Did anyone actually buy Intel boards? From what I remember, they generally have less features, yet cost more than other manufacturers.

But yeah, Intel sticking to what they do best isn't a bad thing. It's stupid not to.

I bought a few. The thing is, if you need an atom board for anything but multimedia, your choice is either Intel or Supermicro (expensive). I still haven't seen anything like D2500CC (dual intel NIC, mini PCIe, multiple com ports, LVDS, LPT) for the same price from other manufacturers.

rollo · 23rd Jan 2013, 11:22

No main company buys boards from them to begin with.

Apple and Dell the 2 biggest users of this board type do not buy them from Intel Shockingly enough.

They are basically a stable board test platform for most manufactures. But from what ive read elsewhere they will stop manufacturing of boards for public use but still supply OEM boards for the manufactures of the new cpus.

TheDodoKiller · 23rd Jan 2013, 11:28

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Originally Posted by RichCreedy

did you miss this

Yep. And I went on the basis that I'd never bought one because of the lack of features, and I don't know anyone that has.

KayinBlack · 23rd Jan 2013, 12:04

I had a BadAxe II for quite a while, most excellent board. Would pick it again.

yogev_ezra · 23rd Jan 2013, 12:29

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Originally Posted by Lance

No. You're thinking of "100 square cm" not "100 cm squared".
10cm² does that for you. Feel free to delete this post once you've read it, sorry to be a stickler.

Hate to ruin it for you, but it's 100cm², not 10cm². When you multiply units, you multiply both number and dimension. So 10cm x 10cm = 100cm². If you want it to be 10cm², then it has to come from 1cm x 10cm

Gareth Halfacree · 23rd Jan 2013, 12:43

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Originally Posted by yogev_ezra

Hate to ruin it for you, but it's 100cm², not 10cm². When you multiply units, you multiply both number and dimension. So 10cm x 10cm = 100cm². If you want it to be 10cm², then it has to come from 1cm x 10cm

Wait, so I was right all along? My brain hurts...

yogev_ezra · 23rd Jan 2013, 12:46

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Originally Posted by Gareth Halfacree

Wait, so I was right all along? My brain hurts...

It's ok, you are usually wrong - this was just an exception

SchizoFrog · 23rd Jan 2013, 13:17

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