> Now you are stuck. Well, hopefully I will still have similar options as I would have chosen anyway. I.e., a reliable and performant combination of MB and CPU

> Now you are stuck. Well, hopefully I will still have similar options as I would have chosen anyway. I.e., a reliable and performant combination of MB and CPU. > The bigger worry is if they start to shut out third-party MB manufacturers. I don't get why the author of the article assumes they will, however. Yeah, why would they want to harm their ecosystem partners like that? Last I checked, many of those Taiwanese firms are the same ones who were OEMing boards for the major desktop vendors.