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Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI
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Dammit. Everything is going up in fire GPU prices. . Ram prices. Storage. Then cpu. And now motherboards. So basically everything...!
Motherboards are, if anything, probably going to do the opposite
motherboard prices aren't rising because of increased demand. Memory prices rose because of increased demand. Prices for things that use memory also rose. Motherboard sales are falling because of decreased demand; motherboards don't use a ton of memory, and fewer people need a new motherboard because the components that they'd plug into the motherboard cost enough to cause them to defer upgrading or buying a new PC. You might see price cuts, if anything.
Even spinning disks are getting pricey. It is nuts.
It's actually the other way around, prices should go down as mobo sales are low.
No, sales are going down because prices are going up. If you have a fixed inventory and sales go down, you lower prices to increase demand and move the product and keep your revenue stream. But in this case, they're moving supply away from this market (consumer hardware) to a different market (AI data centers). So the supply is going down with (previously) fixed demand, driving prices up. The "motherboard sales are collapsing" headline comes from looking at the consumer hardware slice of the computing hardware market. If you look at total sales from each manufacturer, so include the AI data center sales in the analysis, they're not having any trouble moving inventory nor keeping up their revenue stream overall.
There's no components available to plug into a new motherboard. Demand has dropped.