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.
  • lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Motherboards are relatively easy to manufacture and I suspect these AI datacenter builders plan to build their own with bus allocated specifically to the AI needs. RAM? Disk? Not so much… expensive to manufacture, requiring specific knowledge and not much to optimise.

    So here we are