Speaking of the decline in demand for PCs and components, producers and analysts has noted increased demand for components of gaming systems, especially this trend pleases NVIDIA guide, receiving a decent part of the revenue from video card sales . Motherboard manufacturers in these circumstances also do not feel very well, especially smaller. MSI is trying to work in the segment of gaming notebooks, and ECS, first gave rise to rumors about the discontinuation of motherboards for retail sale under its own brand, but later this information denied .
The results of the first half were not encouraging to the two largest motherboard manufacturers in the face of Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology. The two companies in the first six months of this year sold not more than 8 million motherboard, so to realize the goal for the year of 20 million Board already seems unattainable.
Competition between Asus and Gigabyte, conducted by methods of price dumping, so the smaller players in the market of motherboards increasingly difficult to survive. ASRock and MSI in the first half of the year released two million motherboards, and it is unlikely for the year to produce more than 6 million Boards. If MSI is partly saved by the release of gaming notebooks, ASRock trying to find a place in the segment of the server hardware, . Taiwanese sources continue to insist that ECS motherboards in the segment for retail sales was gone. Biostar, according to their forecasts, issued no more than three million cards for the entire 2015.
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