Major vendors expect high shipment growth for graphics and mainboard

Friday 15th June 2007, 12:12:00 PM, written by Farid

Digitimes reports that both major Add-In Board (AIB) players, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology forecasted strong growth in their shipments of graphics cards and motherboards for 2007, during their respective annual shareholder meetings.

MSI looks forward to shipping 28 million units of motherboards and graphics cards in 2007, a 30% growth on year. Gigabyte, for its part, expects to ship respectively 18 million motherboards and 4.5 graphics cards for a total of 22.5 million units for the year.

Also worthy of note, the company executives emphasised their will to vary their operations in a effort to minimise risks, in fear of having all of its silicon eggs in the same basket. As a result, MSI claimed that its graphics and mainboard operations will see their importance reduced to below 55% in the revenues of the company.
These same operations still make for 75% of Gigabyte revenues. The company wants to lower that ratio by improving their shipments of digital home and networking products.

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