Intel invents… The PC?
PCs are already modular.
But if Intel actually wants to make it better they’d:
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stop changing sockets every generation or two (AMD still supports AM4 with CPUs they’re selling right now, and seemingly only change socket when a new RAM standard comes out). To make matters worse, whenever Intel does use the same socket across multiple generations, it’s only generations where there’s a minor performance bump (or a performance regression)
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Refuse to certify non-standard OEM motherboards
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It might help if some manufacturer didn’t invent a new socket form factor every bloody year.
Arent PCs already modular? And if they are talking about board level modularity, like changing mainboard components, cant everyone with a pinecil already do that?
I guess sometimes with the big oems they use custom psu/motherboards but yes otherwise they are completely….
The all-in-ones often have proprietary internal connectors.
PCs are already modular though, and have been for basically the entire time people have used the term, unless you buy them from a vendor like Dell or HP. This article isn’t about Intel creating some new universal standard, it’s about Intel creating yet another competing standard (that they control) so they can get in on the vendor lock-in party.
