[Taipei,Taiwan] The notebook and PC market is still shrinking based on statistics, however, Gigabyte and MSI both Motherboard firms now focus on developing gaming notebook, mini-PC. This transformation for product line may be a notable technology trend in 2014.
Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) predicted that the PC market will be decreased by 1.7% this year as compared to last year, strongly influenced by the increasing of tablet. Gigabye and MSI are taking crisis as a chance.
Gaming notebook means higher performance in processor speed, graphics processing unit (GPC), and random access memory (RAM) are needed.
Gigabye made their gaming notebook mostly in Taiwan that used to mainly relied on Tawanese components firms, namely, Pegatron and Quanta, now turned to ECS and Clevo.
On the other hand, MSI likewise enhanced its PC product line by releasing an ultra compact, low-power consumption, and lighter mini-PC Wind Box series. These features all function by specific IC, respectively.
Specific technology plays an important role in gaming notebook, take ECS into account. ECS has released the L337 (Leet) Z87H3-A3X motherboard, which is based on the Intel Z87 Express Chipset, enabling support for some of the fastest processors available, including the new Intel 4th generation Core i7, i5 and i3 processors.
Moreover, these ECS motherboards ship with an exclusively crafted L337 heatsink design, M.I.B X overclocking software tool, 8-Channel HD Audio with Sound Blaster Cinema software, and Intel I217-V Gigabit LAN optimized for gaming.
