Anatomy of the Chinese connector market
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In 2001, the global connector market showed a negative growth of 18.9%, and its total output value fell from US $ 31.6 billion in 2000 to US $ 25.6 billion in 2001. In the context of the global connector market recession, the Chinese market is still a leader. According to Fleck research company data, the number of connectors produced in China in 2001 reached as much as 34% of worldwide demand. Among the connector manufacturers on the market, in addition to local companies, Taiwanese companies accounted for 37.5%, and European and American companies accounted for 14.1%. As China joins the WTO, more and more international companies will move to China for production. This means that Chinese connector users will have more choices. This article starts with analyzing the characteristics of the Chinese connector market and the product structure, points out the technology development trend of the connector industry in the future and predicts the market trend. It is expected that chip connectors, fiber optic connectors, IEEE1394 and USB2.0 high-speed connectors, wired broadband connectors, and fine pitch connectors for various portable / wireless products will be the most popular products in the future. Characteristics of the Chinese market In recent years, due to the rapid development of the upstream industry of connectors, the 3C industry including computers, communication products and consumer electronics, as well as the data transmission business, have great potential for development in China. The size of the Chinese connector market in 2000 It reached 7.25 billion yuan, an increase of 25.9% over 1999. Due to the influence of the international market in 2001, it only increased by 9.1% over 2000. Since 2002, China ’s consumer electronics, optical communications, and network equipment products have grown rapidly, driving the development of the connector industry. It is estimated that China ’s connector market demand in 2002 was 8.8 billion yuan, an increase of 11.3% over 2001. At the same time, foreign and Taiwanese connector companies have invested in setting up factories in China, which has led to the rapid expansion of connector production scale and reduced foreign imports. The resulting scale effect has also reduced the manufacturing cost of connectors. At present, about 600 companies in China are engaged in the production or processing of connectors. The state-owned connector companies are generally not large, while the size of private joint-stock companies and joint ventures is getting larger and larger. A large share of China's supporting market. State-owned connector companies are generally small in scale, with 85% of manufacturers employing less than 500 employees. China's labor-intensive products, such as wiring harnesses, end pieces, micro switches, power cords, and plug jacks, have certain advantages in the international market. By comparing the data in Tables 1 and 2, we can find that the connector industry in China has the following characteristics: (1) Due to the large scale of China's electronic information industry, the demand for the connector market also ranks among the top in the world. In 2001, production continued to increase by 5.3%, and there was a trend of accelerated development in 2002. (2) The share of production of foreign-funded enterprises gradually increased, which led to the continuous increase in exports; (3) regardless of the number of In terms of quality and quality, Chinese-made connectors still cannot meet the needs of China's electronic information product manufacturing.Some high-end products also rely on imports from abroad. The import and export trade of connectors is in a deficit state, but as overseas connector manufacturing centers move to the mainland, The trade deficit has gradually decreased. Product Structure The market structure of various connector products in 2001 is shown in Table 3. Specifically, the strip connector occupies the mainstream position of the market. In 2001, the output was 1.53 billion, accounting for 31.5% of the total output. Among the various connectors, fiber optic cable connectors are particularly worth mentioning. Due to China ’s vigorous development of cable television networks in the past few years, optical connectors have generally been in short supply. After 1998, due to the increase in enterprise production scale and demand The trend is weakening, and the situation of supply and demand is turning. Regarding the future development trend of China's optical fiber connectors, it can be described as "volume increase and price decrease." In the past three years, the annual growth rate is generally estimated at about 10%. Another major development direction of connectors is the connector for mobile phones. At present, China's mobile phone production is developing rapidly, and the demand for connectors is also correspondingly strong. However, as a new field, Chinese manufacturers, from the perspective of technical strength and production experience, There are still many shortcomings. Surface-mount connectors are mainly used in mobile phones. They are a new type of connector that is miniaturized, high-density, and mounted in a surface mount manner. Each mobile phone needs a radio frequency board connector and a battery connector. There are about 6 other connectors, about 8 in total, and the total price is about 8 yuan to 12 yuan. Products in the Chinese market are mainly produced by Taiwanese and Japanese companies. See Table 4 for the demand for mobile phone connectors in China. In addition, due to strong domestic and foreign market demand, China's PCB connector industry is also showing rapid development. With the emergence of many joint ventures, China is expected to become a world-class manufacturing center for PCB connectors. Recently, the market demand for PCB connectors in Japan and Hong Kong, China has dropped by 10-13%. However, the industry believes that the PCB connector industry is still promising and is expected to recover in the next few months, with demand growth reaching 30%. Driven by the communications, IT, and consumer electronics markets, China's PCB connector industry has shown strong growth. Currently, there are more than 200 PCB connector companies in China, mainly located in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Sichuan, and Fujian provinces and cities. . China ’s PCB connector output reached 60 million in 2001, and its growth rate is expected to reach 50% in 2002. At present, the main export target markets of China's PCB connectors are Europe, America and Southeast Asia. Although these regions have been affected by the economic crisis, Chinese PCB connector manufacturers are still confident about the export situation in 2002, and the export growth rate is expected to reach 30% about. A / V connectors are used in consumer electronics, communications, and computer products. The prosperity of these industries has driven the continued demand growth of A / V connectors. Its main application areas are VCD, DVD, and MP3 players, TVs, and notebook computers. And PDA, these products will further increase the demand for digital A / V connectors. There are about 500 A / V connector manufacturers in China, and the newly-built factories are mainly joint ventures invested by Hong Kong or Taiwan. The development momentum of China's A / V connector industry mainly comes from the rapid development of consumer electronics, communications and PC products. In 2001, due to oversupply in the consumer electronics industry, production reached a trough, resulting in a sluggish connector industry. In 2001, China's demand for A / V connectors was 160 million. The A / V connector market is rapidly changing from analog to digital. The main applications are concentrated in the fields of computers, televisions, VCDs, DVDs, video cameras, game consoles and speakers. From January to June 2002, the output of color TVs and video players increased by 36.5% and 21.6%, respectively, which strongly stimulated the growth of the A / V connector market. Application field comparison All electrical-related products require connectors, and the connector market is widely used. Table 5 shows the proportion of connectors in the Chinese market in different applications in 2001. Among the different fields of connectors, computers accounted for the largest proportion, at 43%. Connectors used in communications products account for 20%. In the next 5 years, high-speed connectors (such as 2.5Gbps and 5.0Gbps connectors), wireless product connectors (mobile phones, base stations, wireless local area networks), fiber optic connectors, wired broadband connectors, fine pitch connectors (1.27mm /1.0mm/0.8mm/0.5mm/0.4mm/0.3mm) and other five parts grew fastest. The average international growth rate is 22.9%, which is the most prominent. It is also the product item that the major international manufacturers TYCO / AMP, Amphenol, Molex, and FCI pay the most attention to. The market predicts that in the next 5 years, China's electronic information product market will still maintain a growth rate of 15-30%. The general trend is that the driving force of new growth points to the industry is released over time, and the industrial scale base is getting larger and larger. , So the growth rate gradually slowed down. The forecast results show that in 2005, China's connector market sales will reach 14.58 billion yuan, ranking among the top three in the world. The demand forecast of various connector market segments is shown in Table 9. In general, the future business and home data communication demand is strong, and the market for various optical communication equipment is broad. The optical fiber connector can maintain a growth rate of not less than 30% each year. The maturity of the home optical network market in 2005 will continue this speed. amplification. Another promising product is the chip connector. As it meets the requirements of product miniaturization and low cost, the proportion of chip connectors will gradually increase in the future, and it is widely used in various palm and small electronic products. The market for strips, PCBs and RF connectors is basically following the development of the overall market for electronic information products, and is lagging slightly behind. Technology development direction With the vigorous development of various computer, mobile communications, notebook computers and PDA products, miniaturization and high density and high transmission speed have become the development trend of connectors. In order to meet the needs of market development and increase their market share, various connector manufacturers in the world have launched their new products. Among them, small-pitch / micro-connectors for substrates, high-speed signal transmission connectors, memory stick connectors, and connectors for digital equipment are the products they focus on. 1. Small Pitch / Miniature Connector At present, the appearance of the entire product using the connector is a combination of miniaturization, thinness and high performance, which has also promoted the development of connector products towards miniaturization and small pitch. At present, in the inter-board connector products, various manufacturing companies have begun to manufacture 0.5mm chip connectors in large quantities. In mobile information terminal products, various manufacturing companies have also started to mass-produce narrower 0.4 mm narrow-chip connector products in large quantities. In electronic products such as notebook computers and PDAs, most use FDC connectors. In this field, 0.3mm? The application fields of 0.5mm pitch FDC connector products will be more extensive. 2. High-speed transmission connectors Because connectors are mainly used for signal transmission, if they can improve efficiency, they will better meet the needs of information products and multimedia products. USB and IEEE1394 are the two mainstream high-speed transmissions on the market. USB is a unified standard connector developed by PC and communication industry manufacturers such as Intel, Microsoft, NEC, IBM and HP. It can connect up to 127 computers. The maximum transmission speed of USB1.1 is 12Mbps, which has broken through the D-Sub connector. Related products can be connected to keyboards, mice, printers and other low-speed devices, which are more common products on the market, and have now developed USB2.0, the highest transmission speed can reach 480Mbps, which has contributed to the development of information multimedia. IEEE1394 was first proposed by Apple and became the official standard for transmission in 1995. Its biggest feature is that it can support peer-to-peer transmission (Peer to Peer), which means that the main body of the transmission can pass through the PC and the transmission speed can reach 3.2Gbps, so almost all high-frequency and high-speed devices use the IEEE1934 standard, such as digital TV, DVC, and high-pixel digital cameras. Because USB and IEEE1394 have different market requirements, the future development should be coexistence of both. Memory stick connectors Digital cameras and mobile phones and other electronic products have greatly expanded the application of memory stick connectors. At present, the latest products that have attracted much attention from users are SD memory stick connectors. Electronic products such as connector notebook computers for digital devices are increasingly using high-precision LCD displays. For this reason, the SX-GA type LCD connector suitable for this high-precision LCD display has been officially launched. In addition, DVI connectors for digital displays such as liquid crystal displays are also favored by users. In addition to the above products, the market demand for optical fiber transmission connectors used in WDM and DWDM and small coaxial connectors related to wireless LANs is also gradually expanding. In general, China is the country with the greatest potential for the development of the connector market. However, due to the low starting point of production and development of the connector industry in China, the ability to develop and innovate is weak, new technology products are seriously lagging behind, product technical performance, production process technology, and other international standards In comparison, there is still a gap of about 5-10 years, and a large amount of demand depends on imports. At present, Chinese enterprises are mainly concentrated in low-end products, chip connectors and micro high-speed connectors with market development potential, and few companies can produce them. For example, at present, Chinese fiber optic connector manufacturers mainly use imported or domestic parts to assemble, requiring small investment and simple technology. There are more than 60 companies producing products, and the supply exceeds the demand, and the competition is fierce. Looking forward to the connector market in China in the future, only by accelerating the process of technological innovation and establishing a sound institutional foundation, can Chinese companies catch up and gain a place in the competition.
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