Shipments of Taiwan’s four major motherboard manufacturers declined in 2022
Thanks to the COVID-19 epidemic and the cryptocurrency market, PC components such as graphics cards were hot for a long time from 2020 to 2022, allowing manufacturers to reap huge profits. As one of the important components of PCs, the motherboard did not get many extra dividends during the same period, and the market has turned weak since the beginning of 2022.
According to DigiTimes, some board practitioners said that the shipments of the four major Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers collapsed in 2022, a decrease of more than 10 million units compared to 2021. Due to the fierce decline, some manufacturers expect that there is not much room for the rise, and the market should reach the bottom. The main goal of ASUS, Gigabyte, and ASRock in 2023 is to stop the decline, while MSI is relatively optimistic and expects to ship volume will increase.
ASRock, which has performed well in the server market in recent years, has shipped 4 million and 4.3 million units in 2018 and 2019 respectively and maintained a level of about 6 million units in 2020 and 2021. However, in 2022, it was directly cut in half, falling to 2.7 million units.
Looking forward to 2023, Asus’s forecast is quite conservative, and it is believed that there will be a slight downward adjustment, and Gigabyte is expected to be flat. ASRock expects a slight increase. In contrast, MSI’s target is more positive and optimistic, and it is expected that there will be a 15% rebound.