(Image credit: Future) A new report suggests motherboard manufacturers are in a bad state right now, with the memory crisis and the Iran war affecting all kinds of PC hardware. As PC builders are disincentivised from, well, building PCs, the motherboards needed for them also get left behind. The report, from Digitimes , notes a "collapse" for many motherboard manufacturers, claiming it is worse than previous financial crises and the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. It notes that MSI, Gigabyte and ASRock are all expected to see declines in 2026, in regard to motherboard sales. As of the time of writing, motherboard sales figures for 2026 are not yet public. Jese Martinez from custom PC company PowerGPU recently affirmed the same to me , arguing, "it's memory, it's storage, it's multiple things that are happening. And it's not just a few 100 bucks.…