The computer hardware market has recently experienced a wave of price increases. From memory and SSDs to motherboards and graphics cards, prices have increased significantly across the board. Processors from international manufacturers like Intel and AMD are experiencing a significant upward trend due to rising upstream wafer manufacturing costs, surging demand for AI computing power, and supply chain constraints. High-end CPU prices have generally increased by over 15%, with some models even temporarily out of stock. For consumers and small and medium-sized businesses, the cost of purchasing a complete computer has increased significantly, making upgrading or replacing equipment more challenging than ever.The essence behind this price increase is the imbalance in global computing power competition and resource allocation, and it also reflects the opportunity for the accelerated rise of domestic computing platforms.
Despite high hardware prices, demand for computers remains strong across all sectors of society. Professionals such as design engineers, software developers, video editors, and graphic designers continue to rely on high-performance computers to complete their production tasks. Similarly, industries such as corporate offices, government informatization, education systems, and automated production lines rely on stable and reliable computing terminals. It can be said that in the digital age, computers have long become an essential component of basic productivity. Faced with rising prices, more and more users are turning to domestic solutions to find a balance between performance and cost.
Amid this surge, Hygon motherboards have seen particularly impressive growth. Aiostar's domestically produced Hygon motherboard series, with its high compatibility and superior design, has quickly become a leading domestic platform. The ATX-sized Hygon 3350/3230 motherboards, equipped with BioAo BIOS firmware, support multiple industrial control functions, including diskless boot, network wake-up, power-on auto-start, and a hardware-level watchdog timer, meeting the stable operation needs of enterprise, educational, and industrial users.
For networking, dual and single Ethernet ports are available, accommodating network redundancy or tiered design requirements for various application scenarios. The motherboard supports quad-channel memory, expandable up to 64GB of DDR4. It also features two PCIe x16 slots, one PCIe x8, and one PCIe x4 expansion slot. Measuring 305mm x 245mm, the motherboard provides ample expansion space for high-performance computing, graphics workstations, and server platforms.
In the field of compact devices, Aiostar's other representative product, the Mini-ITX Haiguang 3350 motherboard, measures only 17cm x 17cm, achieving high-performance integration in a small size. This motherboard uses a unique MAM graphics card solution, and the graphics card performance is comparable to that of a PCIe discrete graphics card, but it can make the entire machine lighter and more energy-efficient, making it ideal for office hosts and embedded industrial control applications. The Mini-ITX motherboard is also equipped with the Baiao BIOS system, which supports core functions such as diskless boot and network wake-up, ensuring system security while enhancing the convenience of remote maintenance and batch deployment. The launch of this type of motherboard indicates that domestic motherboards have reached internationally advanced levels in terms of compact structure and functional integration.
Notably, the Hygon 3350 CPU also demonstrates strong potential in gaming. Recent feedback from numerous players of "Delta Operation" indicates that systems powered by the Hygon 3350 CPU deliver exceptionally smooth gaming performance. Due to performance limitations in Tencent's game optimizations for certain international CPU platforms, some Intel and AMD processors cannot fully utilize the graphics capabilities of their graphics cards. However, the Hygon 3350 CPU can fully utilize its performance in local environments, delivering higher and more stable frame rates and more precise control feedback. Players generally report that the Hygon platform not only offers more stable frame rates, but also outperforms similarly priced foreign platforms in terms of gun aiming, response delay, and visual smoothness.Because of this, more and more gamers are beginning to favor domestic hardware solutions, experiencing purer performance release at a more affordable price.
In terms of game compatibility, "Delta Operation" is one of the most comprehensively hardware-optimized domestic AAA shooters, placing extremely high demands on CPU multi-thread scheduling, GPU rendering efficiency, memory access speed, and network latency. The Hygon 3350 motherboard, with its excellent system-level compatibility and underlying optimization support, ensures that the game maintains a stable frame rate and low latency response even in high-definition settings.When players perform high-frequency operations such as rapid gun switching, aiming with the scope, and intense firefights, the screen refresh rate is stable and responsive. What is more worth mentioning is that in addition to "Operation Delta", other mainstream online games such as "Naraka: Bladepoint", "CS2", "PUBG" and other Haiguang platforms also demonstrate excellent screen smoothness and operation feel, providing players with a stable and realistic immersive experience.
The Aiostar motherboard not only supports the entire Hygon CPU series, but can also be flexibly paired with domestic GPU platforms such as Jingjiawei series graphics cards and Core Motion graphics cards to build a purely domestic high-performance solution. It is also compatible with mainstream NVIDIA graphics cards, from GT 730 to this year's new RTX 5060 graphics cards, which are still durable and can fully exert their performance potential. In high-load scenarios (such as large-scale games, 3D rendering, and AI computing), the system can achieve long-term stable operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, ensuring high frame rates, low latency, and excellent temperature control performance under continuous high-pressure environments.
Overall, the combination of Hygon CPUs and Aiostar motherboards is becoming a significant force in domestic computing platforms. It not only alleviates market pressure from price increases by international brands, but also wins recognition from both the industry and users for its high stability, high compatibility, and superior cost-performance. From professional production to home entertainment, from large enterprises to personal installations, domestic hardware is steadily entering a wider range of application scenarios, signaling the arrival of a mature era for domestic computing power.
