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by Rinzler89 680 days ago
>I'm curious about that - why isn't there more competition

Because like most consumer PC parts, it's a race to the bottom low margin low wage business, usually offshored to Asia, that's only remotely profitable for the top 2-3 players who captured the market and optimized the costs, processes, development and supply chain to the max.

Why would anyone else want to enter such a market to compete for even lower profits?

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Most, if not all, consumer motherboard manufacturers are Asian themselves (Taiwan)
Sure, but must major BIOS manufacturers, Award, Phoenix, AMI are American AFAIK.
Don't forget the co-inventor of EFI (along with Intel), Insyde...
AMI sure is, says it right in the name, lol