In 2017, the PC industry saw its first pick-up in six years. In the major hardware categories, except for memory, the video card experienced the most ups and downs. The fictitious currency mining and the chicken e-gaming game have become two major driving forces for development.
Bo Ban Tong statistics of 2017 China area graphics card shipments data and found The overall increase of 1% over 2016 , Has been particularly hard-won.
2017 can be said that the year of the graphics card, especially in the second half, the two wave mining boom coupled with memory continued to out of stock, making the graphics card market soared, the high prices, out of stock around the serious.
Despite the tight supply, however Last year, the brand graphics card shipments are still generally rising, sales revenue also hit new highs , Especially the most fierce momentum of MSI (MSI motherboard rose the same last year), reaching 1 million or so and rose to sixth place.
Colorful more than 3.5 million fast shipments are still top, followed by more than 2.5 million yingchi faster, but both than in 2016 there was a clear retrogression after Asus, Sotai also fell slightly.
Mining boom, AMD graphics is undoubtedly the most profitable, all the benefits of selling A card, especially sapphire.
Also worth mentioning is that the brand's high-end graphics cards have grown significantly.
Right now, the ups and downs of the virtual currency is difficult to predict, the future of the mining market is also difficult to predict.For the graphics card, games, calculations, etc. is the right way, mining is not a long-term plan, need to make plans in advance.
