Decline of motherboard shipments in 2022

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Read from tweaktown:

ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, and ASRock - has revealed that 2022 was a devastating year. There was a decline of around 10 million in motherboard shipments compared to the previous year.

Even though 2022 saw the release of new CPUs from Intel and AMD, with the latter introducing a new motherboard chipset in the form of AM5, it wasn't enough to cover the shortfall in demand for new PC hardware.

The report shared figures for shipments for the four big brands, covering shipments in 2021 versus 2022. ASRock saw the most significant decline, with 6 million units in 2021, falling to just 2.7 million in 2022 -around 55%. Next was MSI, with a drop of 42% (9.5 million units in 2021 versus 5.5 million in 2022), followed by ASUS, with a decline of 25% (18-plus million units in 2012 versus 13.6 in 2022). GIGABYTE saw a comparatively minor impact, but still considerable, with a drop of 14% - 11 million units in 2021 compared to around 9.5 million in 2022.

 

[froggyboy604]

Hopefully, there will be enough motherboards in 2023, so users won't have problems finding compatible motherboards for their specific Intel or AMD CPU.

 

[Burnsy]

It's because of biden's sanctions on china. All of these are US companies and it just shows how big of a market china was. Oh well, cheap GPUs for the rest of us.

Biden administration clamps down on China's access to chip technology

The moves are the clearest sign yet that a dangerous standoff between the worlds two major superpowers is increasingly playing out in the technological sphere, with the U.S. trying to establish a stranglehold on advanced computing and semiconductor technology that are essential to Chinas...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

I for one look forward to the new cold war between china and the US or even a small hot war.

 

[Artisan Vistra]

I would imagine this hurts a lot of businesses, however, the average person might keep their computers for a few years anyways.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Any reason for the decline?

 

[cm2]

Global Significant Drop in Pc demand worldwide.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Global Significant Drop in Pc demand worldwide.

That was meant to happen eventually.

 

[froggyboy604]

I feel a lot of people are buying used computers or using older Winsows 10 and older computers because they don't like using Windows 11 when they used a Windows 11 PC at a store, at work, school, or a friend's house.

Fewer people buying new Windows 11 computers because of their dislike of Windows 11 may also cause a decline of Windows 11 compatible motherboards.

 

[Artisan Vistra]

I feel a lot of people are buying used computers or using older Winsows 10 and older computers because they don't like using Windows 11 when they used a Windows 11 PC at a store, at work, school, or a friend's house.

Fewer people buying new Windows 11 computers because of their dislike of Windows 11 may also cause a decline of Windows 11 compatible motherboards.

But eventually, they will stop supporting older Windows OS and the more secure versions will be the later ones.

 

[froggyboy604]

But eventually, they will stop supporting older Windows OS and the more secure versions will be the later ones.

This is true. Eventually, more people need to switch to newer versions of Windows which are more secure unless people choose to install a secure Linux based OS which work on the same computer which they used for running an older versions of Windows.