James - Re: "Tell me where are the Intel's plants to make P II motherboards?"
I believe manufacturing is done in Portland, Oregon area and in Puerto Rico. Dupont, Wa is another site but it may be devoted to systems, not motherboard production.
Here's a description from their Web Site:
"Portland
The Portland suburbs of Hillsboro, Aloha, and Beaverton, Oregon are home to Intel's largest site worldwide with five major campuses and a variety of manufacturing, design, and engineering groups. Aloha is home to Intel's second process development wafer fabrication facility, one of only two such facilities for Intel worldwide, and two wafer fabrication manufacturing facilities. Hillsboro and Beaverton are home to groups that produce and market a range of products from ProShare personal conferencing products to PC Boards, network products, and supercomputers. Other groups include the Intel Architecture Laboratories, the Internetworking Group, the PentiumrPro Processor Design Group. Oregon is also one of three Intel sites worldwide for systems manufacturing, where PC's and motherboards are manufactured for Original Equipment Manufacturers. In addition, a new campus in Hillsboro will be the site for a state-of-the-art wafer fabrication development and manufacturing campus where engineers will work on future Intel chip designs and processes. "
Some of the motherboards that Intel designs, manufactures and sells are known by various names such as TUCSON, ANCHORAGE, MARL, PORTLAND, TRITON III, PROVIDENCE, LONE TREE.
May I suggest you pick up a copy of MicroTimes (or request one from their Web site - www.microtimes.com) and you'll get a 250 page magazine full of adds from various vendors selling Genuine Intel Motherboards.
Visit Intel's web site (http://www.intel.com) or Einstein computers (http://www.esc-ca.com) for further information.
Paul |
