For decades the motherboard ecosystem has toiled in the service of the steady tic/toc beat of server processor roadmaps. That was then - this is now! Today there are multiple processor lines each within a larger set of processor makers than ever before in the server industry. The complexity of server processor complexes have skyrocketed increasing board layers, design rules and all manner of motherboard attributes.
The DC-MHS standards come at the right time. Motherboards (transformed now to HPMs) can be much more efficiently produced when originated by the processor manufacturers. The advent of the HPM reduces costs, increases diversity of systems and generally allows the ecosystem to innovate around the processor complex including baseboard management. This comes at exactly the time when the design aperture seemed to be closing on server system vendors. DC-MHS standards have created a whole new opportunity to build thriving horizontal ecosystems.
