Connectors break 60 billion market in 2012

Rise and Fall of the connector industry, electronic devices, the whole market is closely related, because the connector main terminal market for the automotive, computer, telecommunications, industrial, aerospace, consumer electronics and other industries. And therefore the connector market is the global economic downturn will inevitably feel the impact.

Connector Market and strong cold

Connector wide application field, the financial crisis spread to different degrees in different areas of the connector to the company faced a crisis response strategy also varied. Germany ERNI Asia president and chief executive officer Chris Bruhwiler on the reporter said that as the ERNI sales object contains a number of different industries, but in this economic crisis, automotive, consumer electronics and computer industries has been badly hit, while the ERNI companies the dependence of these sectors is not significant. "ERNI is a medium-sized businesses, our single-layer management organization has a very conservative funds. And focus on short-term plans of the listed firms, as a private company, ERNI can run counter-cyclical strategy." Bruhwiler said.

Omron Corporation of Japan walked over half a century has experienced several ups and downs of the economy, seasoned experience, enhanced the safety factor Omron through the crisis. Although the company's connector products are mainly used clamshell mobile phones, part of the market, sales fell 30 percent, but fortunately the Chinese market, a huge increase in the connector to make up for declines in other markets, the current supply and demand basically resumed its pre-crisis level.

Early economic recovery to their prayers, hopes to start by the hands of others, the economic progress of the gear, not as good as their own land reclamation, open up new horizons. FCI is one such company. "As the financial crisis facing the industrial machinery market, the connector is still in the doldrums of the state." FCI Electronics Business Asia-Pacific general manager and vice president Doug Choo said, "We hope to strengthen undeveloped areas expand to get out of this financial crisis. "

Connectors on the whole market, apart from being part of the application areas outside the impact of the crisis, as the basis for electronic components, almost all products must be used to connect devices, use a large base, the application characteristics lead to wide-ranging impact on the connector smaller, connectors enterprises the ability to withstand the crisis stronger than the average integrated circuit chip.

Chip leads to the connector market shrink?

Rapid advances in technology to innovation, each electronic products the number of connectors used in a downward trend. IC Integrated trend intensified, SoC, SiP, more and more highly integrated chip will reduce the connector market? Omron Connector Division product manager for the Greater China region Island Kiyoshi Secretary believes that with the multi-function IC-based, using connectors to connect the media be reduced, under such circumstances the market is bound to the connector will be reduced. But he was not pessimistic about the future, "the future needs of the connector still exists, when the connector is designed to correspond to the use of 'be able to remove many many times to install' needs."

Connectors for the future the question whether the market will shrink, Choo holds a different view.

"In fact, with the everyday tools and equipment in the increasing use of electronic systems, this trend, pushing the connector usage growth." According to his analysis pointed out that, in fact, the connector ubiquitous in our lives, as long as people need to transfers between two devices in the electrical / electronic signals, connectors not escape.

Is to protect the electronic components, connectors between the high-speed, efficient and reliable transmission of an important bond. In fact, the two views of the respondents were not inconsistent. From the microscopic point of view, each of electronic products the number of connectors needed because the system-on-chip tends to reduce the emergence of; from a macro point of view, that did not need the connector because the electronic product derived from the infiltration of the emerging electronic Connector Market. Observed nearly 15 years since the connector market, has maintained a steady growth, only the 2001,

2002 exception, the industry's annual compound growth rate of more than 7%. Despite rising prices, soaring energy prices, slow economic growth in developed countries, connectors market is still growing. According to Global Industry predicted that by the Chinese as well as Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the region's economic push the connector market will usher in the next five-year period of tremendous growth. In 2012 the global connector will reach 60 billion U.S. dollars needs.

The future market two Keywords: Asia, mobile devices

Asia-Pacific region as the world's fastest economic growth in one of the areas, the future will replace Europe and the United States as the world's largest market in the connector. Global Industry report shows that the Asian market in 2010 reached 6.4 billion U.S. dollars, China's market growth in 2015 will reach 20%. Some multinational corporations which have pre-emptive, the connector business focus to Asia. To FCI, for example, in Asia Zhangaigongsi 35% of global sales, according to Choo introduced, FCI has two large factories located in Dongguan and Nantong, the electronics and automotive industries provide services. "We are in Greater China's telecommunications and electricity market leading position, and the field of data in the digital consumer and quickly gain a firm foothold."

As for the terminal market, the mobile device is still the connector is clearly the largest consumer group, currently accounting for 25% of market share. Island Kiyoshi Secretary's view that, so far as affecting the entire mobile product market development; the sales market for personal-use products (mobile phone, PC, etc.) as the main force. In the end of the market, FCI, one is very optimistic about applications for mobile devices - mobile payment. The company's micro-connector Division in particular, and RFIC development support for NFC mobile payment, RFID antenna technology. In addition, FCI Electronics Division for the mobile phone industry and the emerging digital consumer goods industries, has developed a low-back-based, small feet away from the FFC connector.

At the same time, FCI Electronics Division is preparing to enter the medical and industrial instrumentation industries, launch, including waterproof I / O, wire-to-board connectors, junction boxes and connectors, including a complete solar solution.

Doug Choo

Oligopoly yet to emerge, the market development of large space

And the giant hills each integrated circuit chip market is different from the connector market is basically still in a relatively dispersed phase, after all shopping malls predators annexation dispersed remnant appreciation. In 2008 the market share point of view, the greatest player connectors, but 18.89 percent share of Tyco, Molex second in less than 10%, only 7.5%, showing that the connector market is not there giant Intel-style enterprise. The last three years the connector market integration moves frequently. Molex, Methode and other companies to further consolidate its market position through acquisitions to form a partial monopoly of the market is conducive to further expand its market leading position.

It is precisely because the connector does not appear on the market as Intel, we were able to set aside a number of connector manufacturers to expand the territory of the cause of the space, while the scattered wide variety of end-market specifications of the connector is not a manufacturer would be able to bag the overall market revenue in. Perhaps the connector on the market will never have the birth of Intel, which for system manufacturers, not necessarily a bad one blessing.

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