High-cost pressure to PCB Assembly supplier
According to DIGITIMES News: Taiwan motherboard china PCB Assembly makers, including Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, including, due to the materials, chip set, to enhance the impact of labor costs, plans a modest price increase on the price board.
Board is expected within the next three months the price will be increased by an average of 10%, if the shortage of domestic labor is still the case, some products may rise 15-20%.
PCB Assembly suppliers due to the current prices of copper, has already had doubled the price of PCB. Domestic labor shortage led to the low-end Intel chipset, still choose cheaper G31 (online shopping lowest 310 yuan) chipset, not the G41 (online shopping lowest 519 yuan), to ensure that does not affect the low-end computers the cost of excessive growth.