Motherboard sales are collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI, causing prices for many major PC components to rise across the board during the past six months, with memory modules and storage drives leading the way.
Those shortages are being exacerbated by chipmakers like Nvidia, Intel, and AMD, which have reduced production of consumer chips so they can manufacture more AI processors. The AI infrastructure buildout is also causing shortages for Intel and AMD CPUs (and even high-end Macs), as interest in agentic AI rockets through the roof.
Because of this, users who lack deep pockets are putting off upgrading their PCs and holding on to their current devices longer. Motherboard manufacturers have begun to feel the effects of these delayed purchases, with Digitimes [machine translated] reporting that the four major firms are revising target sales downward.
Fuck SamA, no Mobo prices will not fall because it’s all supply on demand, stepping around failed concepts like ‘competition’.
I’m sticking with AM4 system for another 4 years.
My Haswell 4770k died last year after 13 years in service. I replaced it with a used AMD 5800X with 32GB DDR4 for $100. As soon as I heard about the RAM shortages, I grabbed another 64GB.
Not only am I ready to ride out this bubble, buy I’m fucking around with local LLM models just to be a snot about it.
5800X3D and 7900XTX and have seen no compelling reason to upgrade.
Are you me? 5800X3D and 7900XTX is my exact setup right now.
Same as mine except 7900XT.
I think that is about right. I was on my Sandy Bridge system for 9 years and upgraded because I saw working from home happening. No reason I won’t be be fine with my AM4 system for that long. Just did my mid cycle GPU upgrade at the start of the year.
Fuck these greedy, soulless AIssholes
Is it time to buy Jingsha mobos?
