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[janekMZ]

I guess it's difficult to compete with Asian companies.

[CrimNino]

why compete with something that is slowly dying in the real world? its smart for intel to let them other company's take over as intel moves on to what's SELLING and it's true most people use mobile phones and tablets now a days. So I could see intel spending most of its investments on that instead of boards

[HaiYingYzm4p]

I think the trend toward SOC gradually eliminated the need for Intel to remain in the m/b business. Starting from Broadwell, virtually all components that used to be on m/b will be integrated into the CPU so there is no need for Intel to control m/b design any more.

[ZXWEddff221kczPRoute]

I change email accounts and I can't even use my own name any more. While PCs may not be the hot growing sector any more I don't think it is apt to vanish for a rather long time. Dr., receptionists, accountants and such still need something and they don't need to haul them home so I suspect that the desktop, laptops, and servers are going to be around for a while.

What I see happening is tying 4K monitors to small computers and of course you can put enough power in a very small form factor computer so handle most business needs and home user needs.

That is a bunch of the problem. I got a fast single core PC at work back about the time duel cores were coming into fashion and other than giving it 2 gig or ram and a new hard drive the thing was chugging along just fine handling everything I was throwing at it. In other words I didn't see any benefit to replacing this machine and I was the one using it. That has to part of what is killing sales.

There was nothing to be gained by purchasing a new machine or a new OS. I suspect my experience was typical of millions of users. I may still be using this I7 I bought for my personal use ten years from now!

[karthiq]

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I change email accounts and I can't even use my own name any more. While PCs may not be the hot growing sector any more I don't think it is apt to vanish for a rather long time. Dr., receptionists, accountants and such still need something and they don't need to haul them home so I suspect that the desktop, laptops, and servers are going to be around for a while. What I see happening is tying 4K monitors to small computers and of course you can put enough power in a very small form factor computer so handle most business needs and home user needs. That is a bunch of the problem. I got a fast single core PC at work back about the time duel cores were coming into fashion and other than giving it 2 gig or ram and a new hard drive the thing was chugging along just fine handling everything I was throwing at it. In other words I didn't see any benefit to replacing this machine and I was the one using it. That has to part of what is killing sales. There was nothing to be gained by purchasing a new machine or a new OS. I suspect my experience was typical of millions of users. I may still be using this I7 I bought for my personal use ten years from now!

I agree with the last two paragraphs :-)

[karthiq]

From the article: " Focusing on reference designs for all-in-one PCs, Ultrabooks and tablets will enable Intel’s partners to more rapidly ship products that appeal to the new generation of mobile users."

The reference designs shown by intel were pretty good, infact more refreshing than those from a lot of hardware makers.

[Dekaw]

They were 3.5 years late with their first USB 3.0 chipset and then didn't bother to provide a windows 8 driver for it, even though windows 8 betas were already out when the USB 3.0 chipset hit the market...simply stating that Microsoft had the responsibility for that now (the microsoft USB 3.0 intel driver only supports USB 2.0 speeds)

[Dekaw]

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There was nothing to be gained by purchasing a new machine or a new OS.

Quite to the contrary on the latter, and in support of the former...I've recently taken a couple of clunkers (athlon, turion) struggling through the likes of Vista and 7, and not doing much better with XP, and stuck windows 8 on them and they run faster than ever--making me wish I hadn't bothered to buy my ivy i7 a month prior, as the speed difference is minimal-- I then went ahead and threw windows 8 on a couple of netbooks (atom, trinity) running windows 7 okay, and now they're humming workhorses.

Windows 8 may have the most unintuitive interface to ever hit a phone, let alone a PC, but once you get out of the Metro it drives like a vintage Corvette...so if you've got the drivers for it (interestingly, my new Dell i7 does not, as alluded in my other post about the lack of drivers for Intel USB 3.0 chipsets (you can run windows 7 intel usb 3.0 drivers in an unstable compatibility mode if you edit the driver descriptors)), Windows 8 makes hardware upgrades pointless for anything with a 1ghz+ processor and a directx 9+ compatible video card.

[Freedom69]

This is a move to get computers on the cloud. It will happen with the other motherboards. So better buy your pc's right now since they are moving the computer to a cloud based infrastructure so they can control what you can do. Tablets and smart phones have very small memory and hard drives. Plus they can't buy games like simcity 4.

[laserw]

Contrary to the spin by so-called journalists, I've had Windows 8 and have found that it re-energized several computers that had been running windows xp - the performance upgrade is noticeable.

I really do think that the need for a honking desktop is limited - perhaps if desktops were engineered like laptops where there is serious space constraints but more intelligent design, desktops would have a better chance. There is no need for 90% of the desktops to have honking sized graphics cards and with the new chips, much of that power is going to the cpu anyway. Hard drives can be laptop sized or SSD and the overall footprint can shrink immensely - laptop dvd drives work just fine. While I love my two towers, I have several laptops that can outperform them and are just as dependable. Let's resize the desktop to make it less of a brick and more of a useful machine.

[greg4662]

If I had an old desktop that was running slow with Windows XP, I wouldn't waste any money upgrading to Windows 8 when I could just as easily slap Linux Mint or Ubuntu operating system onto it for free. Ubuntu uses less system resources than Windows 8 and is likely going to be more compatible with your old programs from Windows XP.

[jorgecobas32]

I don't think Desktop will die any time soon and i really hope not cause there is nothing as comfortable as a Desktop, and i never liked Intel's boards anyways so. Intel get to work at what you are good at CPU's.

[Raahul001]

The Main reason is that they are unable to compete with manufacturing giants like Asus and Foxconn. These Taiwanese brands are so aggressive in market which is eating market share day by day.

[Nickolas]

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The Main reason is that they are unable to compete with manufacturing giants like Asus and Foxconn. These Taiwanese brands are so aggressive in market which is eating market share day by day.

Intel Motherboards are actually manufactured by Foxconn... Just sayin

[GJerryA]

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I guess it's difficult to compete with Asian companies.

[GJerryA]

I thought Intel was an asian company.
(Most of ther stuff in made outside the US.)

[bcappel]

GJerryA, on 15 February 2013 - 10:28 AM, said:

I thought Intel was an asian company.
(Most of ther stuff in made outside the US.)

Intel has 8 chip manufacturing facilities in the US, and 3 outside the US