Motherboards segment is already not as successful as ten years ago, and talk about the yearly increase in sales is no longer necessary. The Big Three, at the beginning of the last decade have changed the composition. Asus and Gigabyte are the market leaders.
In 2014 MSI can take revenge and become the third largest manufacturer of motherboards. In the past year, the company shipped 6.5 million to 7 boards in the coming year, it could increase to 8 million pieces. ASRock doing slightly worse: instead of the planned 9 million motherboards in 2013, it sold only 7.5 million motherboards, according to preliminary calculations.
ECS last year released a retail only 4 million cards, focusing on OEM-segment.