Motherboard Timeline
1981:The Plamor Breadboard was the first Motherboard used in a PC
1984: IBM invented the AT(advanced technology) Board. The AT form proved very popular and became a standard Motherboard to fit all desktops and tower cases.
1989: ASUS was founded. A small Taiwanese company formed by former ACER employees. They took the name from Pegasus. They would later become the world's biggest Motherboard manufacturer.
1995: The ATX was the first major Motherboard development since the AT in 1984, featuring many improvements including new dimensions and layout, improving space and interchange ability of parts, it solved many issuse faced by system builders from the original AT.
1997: Intel starts its own Motherboard division.
1998: The first backward-compatible board created being nearly half the size of an ATX board.
2001: The small ITX Motherboard was launched and was built for small cases, yet was still powerful enough to match the regular ATX.
2012: VIA's Mobile-ITX is the world's smallest Motherboard. Just 60mm by 60mm
1984: IBM invented the AT(advanced technology) Board. The AT form proved very popular and became a standard Motherboard to fit all desktops and tower cases.
1989: ASUS was founded. A small Taiwanese company formed by former ACER employees. They took the name from Pegasus. They would later become the world's biggest Motherboard manufacturer.
1995: The ATX was the first major Motherboard development since the AT in 1984, featuring many improvements including new dimensions and layout, improving space and interchange ability of parts, it solved many issuse faced by system builders from the original AT.
1997: Intel starts its own Motherboard division.
1998: The first backward-compatible board created being nearly half the size of an ATX board.
2001: The small ITX Motherboard was launched and was built for small cases, yet was still powerful enough to match the regular ATX.
2012: VIA's Mobile-ITX is the world's smallest Motherboard. Just 60mm by 60mm