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CEOs Of The Motherboard Market Talk Shop
k-hell writes "An interesting piece from AnandTech: 'What do you get when you gather 13 of the most influential CEOs in the motherboard market? An excellent avenue to understand where this industry is headed. Find out what the heads of the motherboard industry think about everything from AMD's Opteron to the future of the worldwide economy in our first quarterly CEO Forum.'"
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The article appears to focus on an inititive from Anandtech to unify the thoughts of 13 major mainboard manufacturing big bosses to point the industry where it wants to go.
Personally, however, I am not completely in favour of such an idea. I am not knowledgeable in hardware design/manufacture. I do know, however, that in the software world (or perhaps only in free/open-source/open-minded software), a large group of people slowly nudge a project where the users want it to go. Besides the obvious difference that hardware is very physical, what stops a group of people with common interests to draft up their own freely-distrubutable mainboard specs and see if they can start a bit of a new way of thinking? Perhaps the bar is raised too high already? Or am I missing something?
possibly because they are doing some neat tricks with their drivers which they have spent a lot of time and money to develop and don't want to just hand over said secrets to their rivals?