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Ouch. Even if you can drum up 1,000 orders, that's still a $150 premium per board over the actual production costs. It's impressive ASRock managed to get out two entirely different X99 ITX designs.Then again, we've got a good handle on the sort of market for high-end SFF ITX cases (e.g. Ncase seem to sell batches of 300-600 about once a year), but the ITX motherboard market itself may be much larger given the number of 'big' ITX cases from major manufacturers. It would probably still rule out custom 'lie-flat' PCI-E boards - or other custom form-factors - outside of prebuilt systems though.
Ouch. Even if you can drum up 1,000 orders, that's still a $150 premium per board over the actual production costs. It's impressive ASRock managed to get out two entirely different X99 ITX designs.
Then again, we've got a good handle on the sort of market for high-end SFF ITX cases (e.g. Ncase seem to sell batches of 300-600 about once a year), but the ITX motherboard market itself may be much larger given the number of 'big' ITX cases from major manufacturers. It would probably still rule out custom 'lie-flat' PCI-E boards - or other custom form-factors - outside of prebuilt systems though.
