14 DAY TRIAL // Financial details always trickle over to the web regarding the performance of any and all IT companies, and ASUS seems to be doing more or less well on the mainboard front.
The first quarter of the year was a bit troublesome for mainboard makers, what with the infamous design flaw in the Intel 6-Series chipset.
Nevertheless, even with sales halted for weeks, companies still managed to score good sales, as did notebook suppliers.
Industry sources cited by Digitimes now say that ASUS is likely to score, in the ongoing second quarter, the same number of sales as during the first one.
This assumption appears to have been made based on the number of mainboards that the outfit reportedly managed to ship during the month of April.
Roughly two million units were sent out, not just to DIY channels and existing clients in Europe and the US, but also to China and other emerging markets.
The Z68 models will possibly sell particularly well, knowing their support for the lucidLogix Virtu technology, which automatically switches between the CPU-integrated graphics and the video card a system may have.
Basically, the company expects to meet its intended shipment mark of 5.7 million units for the April-June period and might manage to score a gross margin of over 25%, which are the same results as those of the first quarter.
Whether or not the outfit succeeds in this will depend on if high-end motherboards really do encounter as strong a demand as ASUS hopes.
For those that want a reminder, ASUS has prepared such things as the ROG Crosshair V Formula, Sabertooth P67, the Rampage III Black Edition, etc.
Meanwhile, it remains to be seen if the hardware and PC maker has any success in dealing with whatever is causing the shortage plaguing a certain other product type.