This confirms the company's decision to withdraw from the market

Mar 5, 2013 08:37 GMT  ·  By

Anyone who still harbored doubts about Intel's plans for the motherboard market can set them aside now that steps are being taken to enforce the decision.

For those unaware, Intel decided in the latter half of January 2013 to quit the branded motherboard business.

Now, a report says that the corporation has begun enacting a step-by-step strategy to achieve that goal.

It still has to fulfill the promises it made to upstream component partners though, that it will keep monthly motherboard orders at 400,000 units in the first half of 2013.

As such, its orders for March have only been reduced by 80%, to 100,000, not completely.

It is still a large share though, and makes it clear that the remaining 20% will be cut well before the year is out.