Intel to Desktop PC: No Motherboards for You!

Intel will stop making desktop PC motherboards after the next generation of its chip technology arrives, the company has announced. The fourth-generation Core processors, codenamed "Haswell," will be the last line of chips for which Intel will build desktop motherboards, and it will fully wind down the business over the next three years.

To clarify, Intel is halting the manufacturing of motherboards -- the component of a PC that holds the CPU, RAM and connectivity elements -- not desktop processors themselves. Various manufacturers -- such as Asus and Gigabyte -- will continue to make desktop motherboards, AnandTech reports, and enthusiasts who build their own PCs already have many third-…
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