AKIBA PC Hotline interviewed representatives of the Japanese retail about what they remember in the passing year. Among the most frequently mentioned associations output graphics solutions AMD Polaris and NVIDIA Pascal. Only a few months later-generation graphics cards Pascal deficit was overcome. By the way, about the lack of their graphic solutions Polaris AMD representatives also mentioned a couple of times in the last quarterly conference.
The highest demand among Intel Bradwell-E processors, according to Japanese merchants used Core i7-6850K. Good selling and solid state drives that support NVMe protocol. Finally, increased the average price of a desktop system, because its assembly began to use more expensive components. Now the Japanese stores are eagerly awaiting Intel Kaby Lake and AMD Ryzen processors.