Analyst in the tech industry are claiming that PC motherboard prices may shoot up in April as a result of the earthquake in Japan that unfortunately damaged the buildings of several component suppliers. With the nuclear power issues in Japan which is causing brown outs the matter is expected to get worse. As a result is being said that the supply chain is expected to suffer from a serious shortages, which will cause the industry to face rising component prices and in turn cause the manufactures to pass that expense along to consumers with a price increase.

Many raw materials and components have already experienced price increases which will trickle down to everyone else very soon. Motherboard prices are are likely to rise on an average of 5 percent in April and May.

This should come as no shock motherboard prices had been rising due to shortages of labor in Asia and rising raw material cost.
Motherboard makers like Asustek and Gigabyte had already raised their motherboard prices.  Fortunately, consumers didn’t notice due to other cheaper components prices during the same period that offset the increase.  This time consumers cannot expect to be so fortunate.