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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 proba
by 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 agoYes, 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.