As the cornerstone of PC motherboards in recent years, the situation is very poor, almost no growth in the 2017 full year shipments even plunged 22.4%, Asus, Gigabyte two giants have suffered heavy losses over 30%.
However, according to Bo Ban Tong statistics, In the first month of 2018, total shipments of various brand motherboards in China jumped 64% MoM and 51% YoY.
This is mainly after finishing in December and facing the February stocking demand in the Spring Festival. The situation has greatly improved and is much better than the same period of last year. In January 2017, motherboard shipments increased 49% QoQ and 30% YoY.
Each brand also has varying degrees of growth, of which The two giants Asus, Gigabyte, respectively, an increase of 88%, 82%, while the most prominent is the recent performance of MSI, an increase of up to 166%.
However, due to the Spring Festival, the actual shipping time in February is only about 10 days, so this month's data will certainly not look good.
At the same time, due to the rising cost of raw materials in the upstream, the trend of rising prices of the motherboard will not ease in the short term, March may continue to face prices.
