This is somewhat old news, but I don't recall it being brought up via any of the MUUG channels yet.

Last year Intel announced is was going to stop selling Intel branded desktop motherboards. Haswell (4th gen i-series) is its last offering. No new boards will be brought out after 2014.

NOTE! This only applies to actual Intel-branded motherboards which very few people outside the channel (local resellers, not stores) will have even ever seen. This does NOT apply to any 3rd party (ie "Tawain Inc.") mobo makers like Asus, Gigabyte, etc. Intel will continue to make desktop chipsets and CPUs and provide them to Asus, Gigabyte, Dell, etc. This also does not apply to Intel server/workstation boards, which will continue to be made/sold.

I don't think anyone will mourn their passing. I've had mixed results with Intel-branded desktop boards. They had just as many badcaps as everyone else. They were always just rebadged Foxconns anyways :-) (Their server boards, I should mention in contrast, are superb.)