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CEOs Of The Motherboard Market Talk Shop

Posted by timothy on from the fatherboard-makers-abscond dept.

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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  1. Where's Linux??? by advocate_one · · Score: 5, Insightful

    all those questions and they didn't ask them whether they were going to be more Linux friendly with their motherboards...

    What we really want is proper manufacturers' drivers for all the chipsets on the board, included on the CD that comes with the motherboard.

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    1. Re:Where's Linux??? by intermodal · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What we really want is proper manufacturers' drivers for all the chipsets on the board, included on the CD that comes with the motherboard.

      No it isn't. What I want are drivers in my kernel, that I can compile with the rest of my kernel, and that I don't have to go to every component's manufacturer's site to get. And in case you haven't noticed, Soyo has been making their boards linux-compliant for a long time now. It's OEM companies that need to be more linux-compliant, and less troublesome with their drivers.

      Even reinstalling Windows on a computer which came with a restore partition without using said restore partition to do it is a hassle due to drivers...

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  2. PC or Console? by DigiShaman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's getting to the point that having everything on-board on the MoBo is actually a good idea. They are cheap, and despensible. If something goes wrong, you simply swap out the board and you end up getting an upgrade to the rest of the components in the processes. At this point, with all-in-one boards becomming more and more speciallized like the nForce from nVidia, it's starting to look like the PC is becomming more console like in nature. As for the gaming consoles of today, we can just look at the PS2. It's platform can function as a PC basically with the added network interface and USB ports. And the GameCube is basically a mini Apple. It has an IBM CPU with ATI graphics. If it had any more memory, it could prolly run OSX. Basically, each generation the line between what defines PC and Console blur more and more.

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  3. Re:What would be really interesting by Graelin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    CEOs are not the visionaries, generally - what would be far more interesting would be to gather some of the leading engineers from these companies, and ask them how they thought the market would progress over the next few years.

    That may sound good and all, but the engineers have very little to do with the future. That is not their job. The CEO is a very good choice since it is their direction that R&D follows and eventually, the engineers build.

    Better still, would be the CEOs of the real drivers in the industry. Intel, AMD, IBM - where the innovation really takes place. The motherboard companies more or less follow suit to whatever these guys do.

  4. Attack of the clones by XNormal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I find it interesting that CEO#5 on question 1 refers to "clone market". This term used to be popular when the "real" PC was IBM and the cheap Taiwanese compatibles were "clones" but it's been a long time since I last heard anyone refer to a generic PC as a "clone".

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  5. What do you get... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "What do you get when you gather 13 of the most influential CEOs in the motherboard market? "

    A cartel?

    Bet you any money they still won't be able to produce laptop-sized motherboards for sale to the general public - presumably to ensure that you can't get a decent laptop for less than £1300.