Gigabyte to Perform Exceptionally Well with Motherboard Shipments in 2013

World's number-two PC motherboard vendor, Gigabyte, is expected to perform exceptionally well in 2013, in terms of motherboard shipments. The company closed 2012 with about 19 million units shipped, trailing its slightly bigger rival ASUS, which had ended the year on 22 million. According to shipment numbers at hand, Gigabyte already shipped 17.5 million units between January and October 2013, and at this rate, is projected to have shipped about 21 million by the year's end; which would become the highest ever volumes shipped, in the company's 28-year history.



In comparison, ASUS clocked 15.5 million units in the first three quarters, and is expected to ship about 5 million units in Q4. There's a real chance of Gigabyte shipping more motherboards this year than ASUS, not by a big margin, though. Gigabyte's motherboard plants traditionally also contract-manufactured motherboards for other brands, and it's being reported that the company has almost no such contracts, letting it focus manufacturing almost entirely on its own channel brand. Gigabyte ships PC, workstation, and server motherboards in almost all standard form-factors, and based on almost all x86 platforms, from Intel and AMD.

Source: DigiTimes

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