The two giants in the face of Asustek and Gigabyte gradually replacing smaller players. DigiTimes has decided to bring the unspoken up last year for motherboard manufacturers, while at the same time announced forecast for the current quarter. Based on the given data, Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology all good: each company expects to sell this quarter of 4.2 - 4.5 million. Motherboard, which is 5-10% higher than last quarter. However, compared to the first quarter of the previous year, it will still have to talk about reducing the motherboards sales volumes .
The total size of the market motherboards class "do it yourself" at the end of 2015 was reduced from 69 to 54 million Products, and even the largest consumer in the face of China showed a negative trend in demand: 26 million Boards instead of 28 mln Pieces a year earlier. A sharp drop in profits in 2015 completed the motherboard manufacturers second-tier: MSI, Biostar, Elitegroup (ECS) and Colorful. Only ASRock thus managed to avoid losses.
In 2016, Asustek and Gigabyte can sell for 17 million Boards each, the total size of the market motherboards will not exceed 50 million Products. Biostar will focus on the market for industrial and medical technology solutions with the support of Qisda, the Chinese motherboards manufacturer Onda can will leave the market.