Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS and ASRock to Sell 400,000 Z68 Mainboards This Month

Whenever a new product is launched, especially one that can be sued in a whole bunch of different devices, in this case desktops, sales will go up if the newcomer has good enough specs, and a report claims to know numbers to that effect.

By now, users will have noticed that multiple makers of motherboards have stepped up to offer new models powered by the Intel Z68 chipset.

Among them are Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS, and ASRock, the latter having actually provided them a day early.

Since these platforms will support current and future Intel central processing units, it makes sense that end-users would choose them for their new machines.

As such, companies, especially these first-tier ones, are hoping for big sales numbers right off the bat.

Since the introductions were only now enacted, however, it isn't easy to predict exactly how things will go, but a Digitimes report tried to do so anyway.

Said report gave a rough estimate of what first-tier players expect, or at least hope will happen in the month of May.

ASRock and MSI combined are expected to sell about 15,000 units, while ASUS might just manage 30,000 of its own.

Considering that the total shipment level expected is of 350,000-400,000, this means that Gigabyte will manage to deliver somewhere around 305,000-355,000 of its own.

Of course, seeing as how about 20 different Gigabyte models will be launched before the month of June even comes, this might not be such a wild dream.

What remains is to see how these motherboards encourage sales of CPUs (and how the latter affect shipments of the former), especially once the Santa Clara, California-based CPU maker delivers those seven Sandy Bridge units on May 22.

The final results will probably depend on how cautious prospective purchasers are after the whole design flaw episode that affected the previous chipset.