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Old 11th Jan 2009, 06:47
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One top four motherboard maker will die, says MSI

Either Asus, Gigabyte, MSI or ECS will bite the dust, predicts MSI’s Henry Lu


We’ve already seen Abit exit the motherboard business, and Foxconn has also started laying off staff, but MSI predicts that there could also be a major casualty at the top of the motherboard food chain within the next three years. If the prediction comes true, then this could mean the end of Asus, ECS, MSI or Gigabyte.

Taiwanese tech site DigiTimes reports that MSI’s vice president of products, Henry Lu made the claims. According to the site, Lu said that ‘after the three years, one of the top-four makers will need to be eliminated from the market in order for the other three to remain profitable.’ In the meantime, Lu said that ‘the makers are likely to see motherboard shipments maintain level or decline slightly,’ according to the site.

The top four motherboard manufacturers, according to DigiTimes, are Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology, Elite group Computer Systems (ECS) and Micro-Star International (MSI). According to the site, Lu said that one of the top four ‘will drop out of the market within the next few years since the limited expansion of the market will not be able to support the growth of the four giants any more.’ According to DigiTimes, Lu also pointed out that laptops shipments are now surpassing those of desktop PCs, implying that there will be no further expansion of the desktop motherboard industry.

It’s worth noting that there are no quotation marks in the DigiTimes article, which presumably means that the quotes are not directly taken from Lu, but are instead a summary of what he said.
http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/60537...-says-msi.html

sad times indeed
have in the past used all the m/b manufactorers listed above
would be a sad world if we lost another one
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Old 11th Jan 2009, 20:58
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haha its funny that they included asus and gigabyte, the best manufacturers.
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haha its funny that they included asus and gigabyte, the best manufacturers.
After reading the first paragraph out of all of the companys i was hoping it would be asus
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After reading the first paragraph out of all of the companys i was hoping it would be asus
How come, they make some decent kit.
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How come, they make some decent kit.
They dont have any UK support
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Old 14th Jan 2009, 17:30
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but they have the (extremely expensive) Maximus II and Striker II.

and i doubt asus will go. they make good motherboards. and they have multiple boards in every price range.
gigabyte hopefully wont bite the dust.
i dont like msi...and in 1 computer we've been through 2 msi boards. so they can go bankrupt


one more thing. the computer that i'm on now has an Asus P4B533-E mobo which has gotten wet on several occasions and its still around and working (somewhat) fine
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What support do you need, they offer drivers via the web and you can return any product to where you bought if it breaks...
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I've never even heard of ECS.. Are they any good?
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Not everything requires the motherboard to be sent back and not everything can be fixed via drivers. tbh i cant remember what my problem was when i had an asus motherboard but i do remember only being able to get hold of support for laptop motherboards which was f****** useless.
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GB and Asus have been competing against each other in P45 pretty well. I'd hate to see one of them bite the dust.
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