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Taiwan ships billionth Intel-based motherboard

Published on 3rd June 2009 by Tim Smalley

Intel's Sean Maloney announced that Taiwan has reached an incredible milestone - 1 billion Intel-based motherboards have now been shipped.

COMPUTEX 2009: Sean Maloney arrived on stage this afternoon for his keynote to announce that Taiwan has surpassed a huge milestone – it has shipped its one billionth Intel-based motherboard.

“Intel congratulates the Taiwan tech industry on reaching this historic milestone,” he said.

“This milestone is another signal that the desktop PC is not dead and that computer users continue to crave the processing power, graphics and storage capabilities that desktop PCs provide.”

Maloney went onto describe how Taiwan has become an “innovation hub” for the IT industry before saying that he fully expects demand for desktop PCs to continue thanks to Taiwan’s technological pedigree.

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C-Sniper 3rd June 2009, 05:57

1 billion is quite a large number sir.

Arkanrais 3rd June 2009, 06:33

I didn't know Shaun of the Dead worked for intel...and what the hell is ^this^ guy on about?

perplekks45 3rd June 2009, 10:02

What would you get with the golden ticket?

A walk around a Taiwanese chip factory? And you can take as much as you can carry? Hmmm... I like the idea. ;)

Congratulations to Intel though, 1 billion without using any unfair tactics. Ehrm, wait a second...

Djizasse 3rd June 2009, 10:38

Is this an american billion or an european billion?

patchcable 3rd June 2009, 14:54

The shape size and color will change but we will still put our home PC components inside a box.

Skiddywinks 3rd June 2009, 17:40

I should imagine American, since it is the most widespread.