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I don't really know how computers are made so I assumed that ASUS or someone like them was already the OEM for most of a NUC anyway. I didn't think Intel had an

• dboreham 3y ago
  > I didn't think Intel had any ability to make anything other than chips. Historically this was definitely not the case. Intel made board level products in house, and systems for code development, ICE units etc. These days, probably it is all outsourced.
  • midoridensha 3y ago
    Intel never made board-level stuff in-house; no one does this in fact. It's always outsourced to a contract manufacturer that specializes in PCBs. Intel probably did their own PCB design however.
    • duskwuff 3y ago
      > Intel probably did their own PCB design however. They do. I've heard rumors that some motherboard manufacturers don't have the skills in-house to design and simulate high-speed portions of the PCB (like the memory bus) themselves; they use Intel (or AMD) reference designs for that portion of the board.
      • midoridensha 3y ago
        Yes, I've heard similar things, that a lot of PC motherboards were basically slightly modified reference PCBs from Intel. The high-speed portions of the boards were really difficult to design.
• bee_rider 3y ago
  This sort of device is usually made by OEMs, so the NUC was quite unusual, so that’s a reasonable thing to mix up. Actually, this has made me curious—I’m not sure if Intel, like, physically made the cases. But it could be a deal like with Apple, they don’t actually physically make iPhones of course, they contract it out to Foxconn. Wasn’t able to find any info about a contract manufacturer for NUCs, does anyone know if they used one?