ASRock, Asus, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI show their motherboards

AMD has officially announced its new A620 chipset, giving an entry-level motherboard option for its Ryzen 7000 series CPUs. ASRock, Asus, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI have already announced their own motherboards, and AMD says these should start at $85.

Not sure how you do that

Gigabyte has admitted that a statement found in a recent press release announcing the launch of a next generation of Ryzen CPU in 2023 was a mistake.

Also spins beans on RTX 4070 memory

Gigabyte appears to have accidentally leaked the specifications of the desktop RTX 4060 via its Gigabyte Control Center (GCC) tool.

Will not get better until 2024

Motherboard makers saw their sales tank by more than 10 million units in 2022 and are not expecting a turnaround until late this year or early 2024.

Starts with custom Arc A380/A310 cards

Following the likes of ASRock, ASUS, MSI, and other partners, Gigabyte is now joining the Intel Arc party, and according to a few leaked EEC filings, we will see at least five SKUs, based on A380 and A310 GPUs.

Webinar with partners for B650/B650E motherboards

AMD has scheduled a webinar with its motherboard partners to unveil the mid-range AM5 B650/B650E motherboards. The list includes the usual suspects like ASRock, ASUS, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI.

Lots here

EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) has leaked more Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 models.

Flagship X670 boards

AMD and its partners have been showing off the new flagship X670 boards including the X670E and non-Extreme series.

ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards hit with rootkit

Chinese-speaking hackers are using 2016 malware injected into firmware images for ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards to turn over PCs.

Sales will drop by 25 per cent

Asus and Gigabyte managers are looking at doom-laden projections for the motherboard industry through the rest of 2022.