Motherboard Market has hard time. The largest producers in the face of Asustek and Gigabyte periodically arrange price wars. As you know, the PC market is being compressed since few years. MSI, for example, against the background of this trend took refuge in a niche of gaming notebooks, but also for the desktop segment, it continues to produce interesting products.
DigiTimes reported that the Taiwanese company ECS, known by the brand Elitegroup,ready to roll production of motherboards for the retail market segment . In the presence of orders it may issue payment to its customers under the scheme OEM / ODM, but the promotion of products under its own brand in the retail market, it is no longer willing to engage. Example ECS in 2016 could be followed by another Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers .
AnandTech deny this information, issuing a statement of ECS representatives, which refers to the intentions of the company to continue production of motherboards for the retail market. The manufacturer recognizes that in the current circumstances it is difficult to do, but is ready to accept the challenge.