Perhaps Asus knows something the rest of the industry isn't cognizant of yet, or maybe the company is responding to recent news of AMD delaying its Bulldozer CPU establish. Either way, it comes along Asus isn't ultra-confident in there constituting a high necessitate for CPU board in the 3rd quarter and has reportedly asked its parts and element suppliers to just ship enough materials to produce amongst 1 million and 1.5 million CPU board.


That's down significantly from the 2.5 million units governed for the May-June period, tells news and rumor site DigiTimes, which is acquiring its data from "sources at downstream suppliers." Asus shipped approximately 11.4 million

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CPU board in the 1st half of 2011, only a hair under half of the company's designed 23 million units goal it set for the entire year. By playing it conservative in the third quarter, it's unconvincing Asus will assemble its goal.


Granting to DigiTimes, the downward modification could be an indicator of weak markets in the U.S. and Europe, afterwards the 3rd quarter is generally when CPU board makers post a successive shipment growth to the tune of 15-20 percent. It could too mean that the sales momentum in China is weaker than anticipated.Asus may too be simply caught up in a transitional phase. The CPU board maker cancelled orders for up to 600,000 Intel P67 chipsets, while at the same time ramping up orders for Z68 chipsets.