Recently, a series of sources said that Asustek has been established from January 2018 onwards, its graphics cards, motherboards across the board price increases, including graphics up to 500 yuan, the motherboard price up to 20 yuan.
We suspect this is not ASUS own behavior, but will spread to the entire industry, the result is really!
According to Taiwan's "Electronic Times" report, Affected by the GPU chip, video memory particles supply tension, graphics costs recently significantly increased, so the graphics card manufacturers in the near future on the high-end models price 5-20 US dollars, or about 33-130 yuan.
Due to the continued bullishness of the virtual currency market, mining demand for graphics cards also did not decline as fast as expected. As a result, the graphics card supply will continue to be in short supply in the first quarter of 2018.
High demand for mining to Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and other vendors benefit quite a lot from the fourth quarter of 2017 graphics card shipments decline is very slight, at the same time benefit from the hot chicken and other games, the demand for graphics cards to increase rapidly , Especially the Chinese market.
Some video card manufacturers believe that the rising price of graphics cards will have a limited impact on mining (regardless of cost), but will hit the gaming market hard.
Graphics card manufacturers expect, First quarter of 2018 shipments will show a sequential decline, but thanks to price increases, gross profit margin, net profit will be significantly increased over the same period last year.
