![]() In 2015 when the use of AIB for cryptocurrency mining became widespread, AIB sales started to rise while PC sales fell. Overall, AIBs shipments had been declining slightly, but not as great as the PC due to gaming and Crypto-mining. On a year-to-year basis, we found that total AIB shipments during the quarter fell 5.7%, while desktop PCs rose 8.8% for the same quarter a year ago, this discrepancy reflects the weakening Crypto-mining market. Shipments of desktop PCs compared to desktop AIBs over time The relative changes from quarter-to-quarter are illustrated in the following chart. ![]() This quarter it showed a decrease of 28.0% that is -18.2% below the ten-year average of -9.8% which is very low when compared to the desktop PC market, which decreased 3.4% quarter-to-quarter. Since 1981, 2,070 million AIBs have been shipped.Q2 is normally down from the previous quarter. We have been tracking AIB shipments quarterly since 1987-the volume of those boards peaked in 1999, reaching 114 million units, in 2017, 52 million shipped. In addition to privately branded AIBs offered worldwide, about a dozen PC suppliers offer AIBs as part of a system, and/or as an option, and some that offer AIBs as separate aftermarket products. There are 48 AIB suppliers, the AIB OEM customers of the GPU suppliers, which they call "partners." The primary suppliers of GPUs are AMD and Nvidia. The PC AIB market now has just two chip (GPU) suppliers which also build and sell AIBs. ![]() Market share changes quarter-to-quarter, and year-to-year
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