14 DAY TRIAL // As the holiday shopping season approaches, some computer hardware makers are seeing shipments grow, especially the motherboard manufacturers that are in full swing as their July shipments rose even more. Almost all first tier motherboard makers like Asus, MSI and Gigabyte are reporting strong sales, but the company Elitegroup Computer Systems (better known as ECS) is seeing a shard decline as its revenues registered a 5.17 percent decline. Even so, ECS global shipments meant an increase of 23.5 percent increase in revenues when compared to the previous year.
According to the news site DigiTimes, Asustek Computer which manufactures and sells computer hardware components under the Asus brand, announced revenues of $1.39 billion, an increase of 10.8% compared to the same period last year, as the company shipped 4.85 million motherboards, about half a million notebooks and almost one million graphics cards in July. Micro-Star International (MSI for short) registered a revenue increase by 18 percent on month and over 30 percent on year, having shipped around 1.40 million motherboards and 900,000 graphics cards during the last month.
Gigabyte Technology is a another hardware manufacturer that registered a slight drop in both revenues and shipments, but even so the company was able to post a year on year increase in revenues of 33 percent as its motherboards shipments reached the number of 1.85 million, while graphics cards shipments followed with 340,000 units. Among the mobile computing market things are looking good as the manufacturers are posting strong sales results. Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics are on the top of the notebooks producers as the two companies saw their shipments increase by 50 percent over the last year.
Quanta shipped 2.8 million notebooks in July, while Compal reported a slight smaller figure, but still over 2 million units. The record breakers are the Taiwanese panel makers that registered the biggest sales during the previous month, with CMO's shipments growing by 15 percent and reaching $30 million, which translates into a total number of 47 million parts sold.