Gigabyte sees big slide in motherboard orders

Gigabyte is reportedly suffering from low demand for its motherboards. No specifics are mentioned, but DigiTimes heard that since the start of the year, the volume of orders is much lower than those received during the same period a year ago. The site explains part of the reason may be the departure of some of Gigabyte's top managers. Gigabyte China's former president now works at Acer, while the former head of Gigabyte Korea/Japan took up a position at Foxconn.

One bright light is that Gigabyte's video card sales are going very strong, but that's due to the unrelenting demand from cryptocurrency miners.

In 2017, Gigabyte's graphics card shipments reached a company record of 4.4-4.5 million units, thanks to cryptocurrency mining demand, boosting the firm's net profit to around NT$2 billion.

However, its motherboard shipments in the year shrank sharply by 3.6 million units to reach less than 13 million units due to the company's business re-organization and fierce competition from Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI).