ash11 wrote:
Looks like MSI shares your idea.
Is Asus considering to go in that same direction?
ASUS is already sharing this idea with the SilverStone's collaboration SG Station 2, which was the reason everybody could have understood the G750JZ had Optimus enabled (if an Italian video on Youtube showing it was not enough).
The big problem now is the creator of this technology: Intel. Intel is not creating innovative CPUs, so people can live with old CPUs, so Intel is clearly destined to go bankrupt or shrink to a smaller company. The development cost of new CPUs is growing and they are starting to need more time, which means even more money. So they found an amazing idea to make more money: motherboards with integrated CPU, new incompatible CPU sockets, they will try to put integrated CPUs inside gaming desktops too.
Thunderbolt could be Intel grim reaper (because of eGPU people could stop buying so often), so Intel is trying to prevent this by denying Thunderbolt certifications. At this point two ways are possible: Intel stops denying certifications or an alternative to Thunderbolt is created.
Will ASUS survive? Yes. Will the ROG notebooks survive? Maybe, but not the G750 lineage. Probably ASUS will move from developing gaming notebooks every 12 months and updating after 6 months, to developing every 24 months and updating after 12 months.
Desktop and notebook markets will shrink, GPU market will explode (until saturation of the eGPU market) and ASUS will be a major player.
The future belongs to modularity, the future belongs to your mobile phone.
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