Survive in the motherboard market now is not easy. Big Three became Big Two: the largest manufacturers of motherboards are Asustek and Gigabyte, they also have the capacity not only to offer a wide range of products, but also to put pressure on competitors aggressive pricing. At CES 2015, Asus said that the history of its existence, already sold in the retail market 500 million Motherboards.
Site DigiTimes reports that rumors of ECS intent proved premature. Motherboards for the retail segment of the market in 2014, will be released. Superiority in the ODM-segment is obvious: in this direction shipped 13.5 million Motherboards. By the way, ECS recently partially refused Acer and Lenovo, shifting some orders to Wistron and MSI.
Despite the desire to give priority to the ODM-business, ECS will continue to produce motherboards for implementation in retail, as says the source.