Worldwide brand motherboard shipments were 75 million units in 2013, but slipped below 50 million units in 2016 reports Digitimes today:
Since motherboard demand from China, which had been the main growth driver in the past few years, is dropping significantly, shipments are expected to remain in decline in 2017.
Gigabyte Technology is also expected to see its motherboard shipments drop below 13 million units in 2017. In addition to China's weakening demand, competition from Asustek has also grown fiercer, the sources noted.
However, Gigabyte is still expected to be able to keep its EPS at above NT$3 for 2017 thanks to rising sales from its graphics card business because of the cryptocurrency mining trend and server orders in the first half of the year. In the first three quarters of 2017, Gigabyte is expected to ship 3.4 million graphics cards, a level similar to that of the entire 2016.
Since Gigabyte is still in the process of reorganizing its business, and shadows have been cast over the cryptocurrency trend, the sources believe these issues could pose strong challenges to the company's operation in 2018.
and not enough proper uses out there for it as well as like you were saiyan sandy bridge and it's equivalent is still more than fine enough. Also as you were hinting towards the 99% of us PC users build PC's mostly for gaming and simple tasks so lets not kid ourselves there lol point being no real need for upgrading unless you were old pile driver core such as the 80350 and the likes
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Not really surprising considering a Sandy Bridge is for all intents and purposes is still as capable as a Skylake. Ryzen being the only real "new" innovation to come to market isn't enough to boost the numbers.