With the rapid growth of consumer electronics, automotive electronics, communications terminal market and the global connector production capacity continues to shift to Asia and China, Asia has become the connector market has the most potential for development, and China will become the world's fastest-growing connector and the largest capacity of the market. It is estimated that the future growth of China's connector market will continue to outpace the global average, the next five years, China's connector market size will reach an average annual growth rate of 15%, by 2010, China's connector market capacity will reach 25.7 billion yuan.
The main supporting areas of the electrical connector transportation, communications, networks, IT, medical, home appliances, etc., supporting the rapid development of the level of product technology in the field of rapid development and its rapid growth of the market, a strong pull on the development of connector technology. So far, the connector has developed into a complete range of products, a rich variety of specifications, structural type of diverse, professional direction of segmentation, industry characteristics are obvious, the standard system specification of the serialization and specialization of the product.
Overall, the development of connector technology presents the following characteristics: high-speed signal transmission and digitalization, the integration of various types of signal transmission, miniaturization of product volume miniaturization, low-cost products, contacts termination table paste, module combination, plug the convenient and so on. The above technology represents the direction of development of connector technology, but it should be noted that: the above technology is not necessary for all connectors, different supporting areas and different use of the environment of the connector, the demand for the above technology is completely different. According to Global Industry forecasts, by China and Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America region's economic impetus, the connector market will meet the next five years of tremendous growth, in 2012 the global demand for connectors will reach 60 billion U.S. dollars. According to Global Industry's report, the Asian connector market reached $6.4 billion in 2010, and China's market growth rate will reach 20% in 2015.
- ITRI estimates that the global connector market will reach a record high of $49.8 billion in 2010
- ITRI estimates that the global automotive connector market will reach $13.4 billion in 2011
- The global computer and peripheral connector market will reach $12.5 billion in 2011
- The global telecommunication data connector market will reach $10.5 billion in 2012, according to the Global Industry report. The global telecom data connector market will reach $10 billion in 2011
- Consumer connectors will continue to grow due to the boom of digital home, game consoles, etc. The research shows that the connector market will continue to grow due to the strong demand for consumer electronics such as game consoles, MP3 players, cell phones, LCD TVs, digital cameras, etc. According to In-Stat, the global TV set-top box market will be worth $1.3 billion by 2014. In-Stat pointed out that in 2014, the value of the global TV set-top box market will reach 1.3 billion dollars. According to DisplaySearch, global TV shipments will exceed 242 million units in 2010, a year-on-year increase of 15%, and are expected to exceed 260 million units by 2014.
China's connector industry in order to fully realize the market-oriented competition, the market-oriented enterprises operate independently. In the international market, the connector of the world's top ten manufacturers has been the United States, Japan, France, Taiwan, four countries and regions occupied by manufacturers, from the competitive landscape, Tyco Electronics, Amphenol, Molex and other three foreign companies occupy nearly 80% of the market space of China's mobile communication terminals and digital products, micro-small precision connectors.
In mainland China, there are more than 1,000 connector manufacturers, of which about 300 foreign-invested enterprises, more than 700 local manufacturers, mainly in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta region. Domestic manufacturers of local connectors are generally small, weak; part of the military industry has an advantage in technology research and development, but the application areas of the products are mostly focused on military products, mass production capacity is insufficient, and the company for the market segments are different, and does not constitute a substantial competition. Connector is one of the most important devices in the cell phone, on average, the number of connectors needed for each cell phone reaches 8. According to the report of Coda Research, the global smart phone shipments will reach 2.5 billion units during 2010 to 2015, with a compound annual growth rate of 24%. According to Coda Research, the global smartphone shipment will reach 2.5 billion units during 2010 to 2015, with a compound annual growth rate of 24%. As the development of the cell phone market continues to improve. Cell phone connector market will continue to trend upward.
- Mobile phone connector product categories used are divided into internal FPC connectors and board-to-board connectors; external connection of the I/O connectors, as well as batteries, SIM card connectors and Camera Socket
- 3G cell phones and smart phones demand market, cell phone connector current development direction: low height, small pitch, multi-function, good electromagnetic compatibility, and good connectivity. Global notebook shipments will reach 291 million units in 2014. The application of connectors in computers is about 5-12 sets per unit, and the steady development of the computer market has driven the continued growth in demand for connectors.