Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards in 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers
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Fewer people are buying parts and building new PCs from scratch.

Motherboard sales are collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI, causing prices for many major PC components to rise across the board during the past six months, with memory modules and storage drives leading the way.

Those shortages are being exacerbated by chipmakers like Nvidia, Intel, and AMD, which have reduced production of consumer chips so they can manufacture more AI processors. The AI infrastructure buildout is also causing shortages for Intel and AMD CPUs (and even high-end Macs), as interest in agentic AI rockets through the roof.

Because of this, users who lack deep pockets are putting off upgrading their PCs and holding on to their current devices longer. Motherboard manufacturers have begun to feel the effects of these delayed purchases, with Digitimes [machine translated] reporting that the four major firms are revising target sales downward.

  • ɔiƚoxɘup@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    I would say that these are some of the first dominoes to fall in this collapsing economy, but it kinda seems like a bunch of em are falling at once. Sometimes I wonder if its time to invest in a solar rig for the van so we have power while we flee.

    • Powderhorn@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      10 hours ago

      Solar on a van has been my life for couple of years. Of course, now diesel’s expensive enough in Texas that fleeing will run $1/mile.

    • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca
      4·
      3 days ago

      I think that is about right. I was on my Sandy Bridge system for 9 years and upgraded because I saw working from home happening. No reason I won’t be be fine with my AM4 system for that long. Just did my mid cycle GPU upgrade at the start of the year.

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      My Haswell 4770k died last year after 13 years in service. I replaced it with a used AMD 5800X with 32GB DDR4 for $100. As soon as I heard about the RAM shortages, I grabbed another 64GB.

      Not only am I ready to ride out this bubble, buy I’m fucking around with local LLM models just to be a snot about it.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Fuck SamA, no Mobo prices will not fall because it’s all supply on demand, stepping around failed concepts like ‘competition’.