Tuesday, March 17th 2020
Report: GPU, Motherboard Shipments Hitting Record Lows in Wake of Coronavirus Outbreak
A report via DigiTimes paints a bleak image on shipments for motherboards and GPUs. According to the publication, citing sources close to motherboard makers, the initial impact of the outbreak severely affected production - and the entire supply chain ecosystem needed to ferry these across the world. Alongside reduced demand in China (reported to be down 50% YoY and unlikely to pick up until July at the earliest) and other countries, the stage is set for a record low in some of our most favored hardware pieces.
Market observers had expected a seasonal increase in demand entering Q3 2020 which may never come to fruition, as DigiTimes also mentions AMD, Intel and NVIDIA as being unlikely to achieve their target sales for this time period. The reduced demand could see prices come down on components and various hardware pieces, should it linger for longer than the fabrication bottlenecks factories are currently facing. Some publications are pointing towards this drop in demand as a reason for NVIDIA to delay their expected GTC announcements, which the company's CEO, Jensen Huang, has already come out saying "Could wait".
Sources:
DigiTimes, via Tom's Hardware
Market observers had expected a seasonal increase in demand entering Q3 2020 which may never come to fruition, as DigiTimes also mentions AMD, Intel and NVIDIA as being unlikely to achieve their target sales for this time period. The reduced demand could see prices come down on components and various hardware pieces, should it linger for longer than the fabrication bottlenecks factories are currently facing. Some publications are pointing towards this drop in demand as a reason for NVIDIA to delay their expected GTC announcements, which the company's CEO, Jensen Huang, has already come out saying "Could wait".
39 Comments on Report: GPU, Motherboard Shipments Hitting Record Lows in Wake of Coronavirus Outbreak
Or how it doesn't because manufacturers have interest to sell at inflated prices and only then ;)
Still, next year when they do the stats it'll be wow up 200% from last year.... That's if they have got over the loo roll prices as no one will have needed them for 6 months......
It pays to plan ahead guys.
As for hardware shipments I figured it would suffer with all this going on and it won't end in just a week or so either.
Also, this thread suddenly has me in tears from laughing so hard. Thanks y'all :lovetpu:
Its also quite sad that you feel the need to do this in the first place in a Corona topic.
Everything they've done before and are doing now towards that end is what they honestly believe in for themselves - "Manifest Destiny" and will spare no cost or consequence to that end.
Cheaply made products is but one way to achieve it, knowing folks everywhere will buy what is cheapest and they have the manpower to make it happen while taking away one's abiliy to manufacture in the process by their own willing hand.
Simply put - If you don't manufacture and sell you don't profit because you can't constantly buy stuff with no means to manufacture yourself, it creates a trade and economic balance in favor of the one that's doing the manfacturing - Which is China by their own design.
Without income of some kind while still buying, one can only go deeper into the debt hole to them and they know it.
Nuff said.