DIY market declining amid high RAM prices
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Asus shipped 15M motherboards in 2025. Only expected to ship 10M in 2026. CPU prices are also rising. DIY = Do it yourself, build your own PC. Excerpt: NVIDIA GPU upgrade slowdown coupled with CPU and memory shortages causes PC motherboard manufacturers' shipment targets to collapse across the board. NVIDIA GPU updates are slowing down, and both CPUs and memory are experiencing shortages and price increases. PC motherboard manufacturers are also lowering shipment forecasts across the board for 2026.