ASUS and Gigabyte continues to actively expand the markets of small Chinese cities, as well as in online sales, which could eventually make Chinese motherboard manufacturers out of the market in 2015. At the same time, some Taiwanese suppliers will be forced to focus on OEM-orders or abandon the China market in general.
In 2013, the market of computer accessories were sold 75 million motherboards, China accounted for about 40% of this volume. Characteristically, in 2014 in China will be sold only 27 million motherboards. In this case, ASUS and Gigabyte to ship by 9-9.5 million cards each, the remaining amount will be shared between the company ASRock, Micro-Star International (MSI), Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) and Biostar.
In addition, the market for high-end motherboards are also dominated by ASUS and Gigabyte, which allows them to remain profitable on a background of significantly heightened price competition.