In the second quarter, according to a source, the demand for motherboards decreased by up to 20-30% when compared to the previous quarter. As a result, the major players in the face of Asustek and Gigabyte boards expect to reduce supply volumes by 5% compared to 2015.
The forecasts for 2016 now looks like this: Asustek and Gigabyte will release 17 million motherboards, MSI will be limited to 4.5 million cards, ASRock expects to release 4 million cards, the ECS hardly gets up to 2 million pieces, and Biostar will be able to release.... less than a million motherboards. The last two companies, according to DigiTimes, are candidates for conversion business. The ECS, supposedly satisfied only contract manufacturing circuit boards for other customers, and Biostar are interested in embedded systems. Already last year the volume of production boards of the brand fell by 44%, and this year they will be reduced even by half.
Demand for motherboards in the current half of the year will be low, since a number of regions suffering from political uncertainty and currency fluctuations, and Intel Kaby Lake processors exit delay until next year the growth in demand is also not conducive. Related Products :
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