{"id":6511,"date":"2008-02-18T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/intels-skulltrail-motherboard.html"},"modified":"2008-02-18T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T15:41:47","slug":"intels-skulltrail-motherboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/intels-skulltrail-motherboard.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel&#8217;s Skulltrail Motherboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/skulltrail.jpg\" \/>I just have to wonder if Intel&#8217;s latest motherboard code named SkullTrail will be useful beyond the gaming market. The device can be outfitted with two quad-core processors and multiple graphics chips from AMD (yes, AMD) and Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the gaming market is all over this news &#8212; awaiting it like subprime borrowers wait for rate cuts.<\/p>\n<p>But one has to wonder if the IP communications space won&#8217;t be able to take advantage of this motherboard for serious call processing via HMP-based software. Hopefully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Nick+Jensen\">Nick Jensen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/voip\/0806\/ceo-spotlight-aculab-pound.htm\">Alan Pound<\/a> are mulling this over already.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see what applications are enabled by a motherboard which is expected in systems that cost no less than $6,000!<\/p>\n<p>In addition I yearn for the days when parents had to shell out no more than a quarter for their kids who wanted to play video games. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mtstatic\/FCKeditor\/emoticons\/icon_lol.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and one last point. I may need to get my hands on one of these units to see if it is indeed as fast as Intel says. Thanks to blog readers like you, I can now write this monster off. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mtstatic\/FCKeditor\/emoticons\/clapping.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2008\/02\/05\/3249018.htm\">Sharkyextreme<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120336133720575121.html?mod=rss_whats_news_technology\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just have to wonder if Intel&#8217;s latest motherboard code named SkullTrail will be useful beyond the gaming market. The device can be outfitted with two quad-core processors and multiple graphics chips from AMD (yes, AMD) and Nvidia. Obviously the gaming market is all over this news &#8212; awaiting it like subprime borrowers wait for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,218,198,189,203,211,118,177,190,191,205,1675],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}