Intel announced that it will stop production of desktop motherboards but will still continue to supply CPU chips to third party manufacturers. Studies show that the sales of PCs have declined. This is not likely to be the sole reason for Intel's decision but as leading edge pioneers and veterans of the technology industry, Intel is responding to the changing market. The decision will not affect Intel's Enterprise Platforms and Services Division, which manufactures server motherboards and server systems. In a statement, a rep for Intel says, " Intel's Enterprise Platforms and Services Division (EPSD) produces server building blocks for resellers, integrators, and OEMs world-wide."
Late last year, Intel's CEO Paul Otellini released information indicating that the company was developing and producing their 4th Generation Microprocessors architecture, codenamed "Haswell". According to Digitimes, Intel will make the official announcement of the Haswell architecture chips at a conference right before Computex 2013 in Taipei, Japan. We could see these new Core i5 and Core i7 quad core chips in Apple iMacs fairly soon. Intel revealed that the new Haswell chips will have double the performance and battery life of the Ivy Bridge chips.
For 20 years, Intel has been a staple in the revolution of CPU chips. Humbly beginning with just 12 employees and an idea, today Intel has become a multinational Fortune 200 company with over 20,000 employees. With their erasable, programmable read-only memory (EPROM) and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), over the decades the Intel brand has managed to change the way the world manages information.
That being said, Intel has been named one of the most sustainable corporations in the world by the S&P Global 100 for nine consecutive years. As Intel makes business decisions to direct its focus to continued technological advancement, we expect more exciting innovations in the very near future. Gladly, there will be no layoffs of any kind, just more of a focus on CPU processors that we will probably soon see in new Apple iMacs, Asus Ultrabooks and Google tablets.
