As the PC cornerstone, the shipment data of the motherboard in the first quarter of 2018 is not ideal.
According to Digitimes, vendors such as Gigabyte, ASUS, and ASRock have all started to deploy new platforms, and hope that the new Intel/AMD products can help them recover.
Among them, Gigabyte shipped 3.2 million motherboards in Q1, down 300,000 from the same period of last year, which was 8.6%.
Not surprisingly, starting in April, Intel will increase the pace of listing of the remaining eight Core family processors, including Pentium, Celeron, and the matching 300-series parity chipsets (H310/H370/B360/Q360/Q370). , AMD will launch Ryzen 2000 series, based on 12nm Zen plus architecture, synchronization and X470/B450 motherboard.
It is worth mentioning that in 2017, the overall shipment of the motherboard industry has fallen by 15% to less than 13 million. The main reason is the weak demand in China Although Q2 may be better, analysts say In 2018, motherboard sales will decline by 10%.
