The downturn in the PC market is also having an impact on mainboard manufacturers. According to a report from Taiwan, the four major manufacturers ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte and MSI will together ship over 10 million fewer motherboards in 2022 than in the previous year. The decrease corresponds to around 30 percent.
The figures come from a report by the Taiwanese business magazine DigiTimes (Paywall) and were published by Tom's Hardware. According to this, around 44.5 million mainboards were sold by the four manufacturers in 2021. In 2022, according to estimates, there would only be around 31.3 million. This would mean a drop of around 30 percent.
Although exact figures are missing, ASRock is said to have had the largest drop in sales of 55 percent. At MSI it is still 42 percent minus, while the two largest manufacturers Asus and MSI lost less percentage. Sales figures from the smaller manufacturer Biostar are not included in the statistics.
Asus and Gigabyte had already lowered their delivery targets for 2022 significantly in the summer.
Demand collapsed
The main reason for the slump in sales is weak demand for PC components stems from a generally weakened PC market. PC sales had risen sharply during the pandemic years, but the level has now returned to normal. Added to this is the currently ailing world economy with high inflation rates, which are reducing the willingness to buy. However, the report also cited the slump in the crypto market as the cause of low mainboard demand.
The CPU market is suffering in the same way
Sales of the processors that are housed in the sockets on the mainboards have also plummeted. Market researchers are even assuming the biggest drop in sales of x86 CPUs in 30 years.
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