In the first quarter 2019 , the motherboard manufacturers, probably, faced with a sharp drop in supply, industry sources warn. In addition to the traditional period of seasonal factor, negativity in the market to add the low demand for equipment from the miners. mining attractiveness "digital money" decreased significantly after, how in 2018 Bitcoin was struck quotes, Ethereum and a number of other popular cryptocurrency.
sources pointed out, what in 2018 decreased by more than the world's supply of motherboards based on 10 % compared with 2017 year. Most of all motherboards shipped ASUSTeK - 14-15 million units. In second place with 10 million in quantitative terms is Gigabyte, index MSI - 6 million, ASRock — 4 million.
Expected, that the decline will continue in the 2019 year, although it may not be as ambitious. Reason for hope is forecast, whereby ASUSTeK Computer, Micro-Star International (MSI) ASRock and maintain the volume of shipments at 2018 of the year. But Gigabyte Technology, Biostar Microtech International и Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) will feel in these circumstances, somewhat worse, insofar as, As the online resource Digitimes, a significant proportion of their production is in the budget segment.
AT 2019 year due to the depreciation of the leading cryptocurrency motherboard manufacturers will focus on the gaming PC market. This will also contribute to the production of new GPUs - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, which has already been presented and recently passed the tests in the test lab 3DNews, и AMD Radeon VII, which will start in February.
