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This research report presents industry size and value forecast and recent quarter review of the worldwide motherboard industry. The report includes shipment volume and value, shipment breakdowns by maker, ASP, and price trends. The report also examines manufacturer rankings, assembly levels, CPU connector adoption, production locations, shipment destinations, and business types, and provides assembly level breakdown for CPU types, production locations, shipment destinations, and business types. The content of this report is based on primary data obtained through interviews with motherboard makers. The report finds that the worldwide motherboard industry's shipment volume and value both saw sequential declines in the fourth quarter of 2012. The industry's growth momentum has remained weak in the first quarter of 2013 due to the ahead-of-schedule shipments before January, reduced working days in February, and the lower-than-expected inventory replenishment in March. Thus, the worldwide motherboard shipment volume is expected to have dropped sequentially in the first quarter of 2013. Nevertheless, it is projected that the industry's shipment volume will bounce back in the second quarter and peak in the third quarter of 2013.

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