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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.

    --
    Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
  2. 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.