The Development of PCB in China in the Next Five Years

According to statistics, the share of Europe and the United States in the global PCB market continued to drop sharply from 2000 to 2009, with Japan and Taiwan remaining basically unchanged, and China and South Korea growing rapidly. In the next five years, the transfer of production capacity from the PCB industry to mainland China will continue, and the transfer of production capacity will be high-end products. This will ensure that the Chinese market will achieve an average annual growth rate of about 9.3%, which is much higher than the global average. Due to the major earthquake in Japan this year, the market turned single. This increase will accelerate even more.

Computers, communications and consumer electronics are the three core application areas of the PCB industry, occupying about 70% of the industry's output value. Looking into the future, emerging applications in mobile phones, tablet computers, and image sensors will continue to stimulate the development of related industries and drive the PCB at the same time. Industry development. It is estimated that by 2015, the global smart phone will have an estimated value of 468 million sticks this year and grow to 1.18 billion sticks all the way, accounting for 48% of the 2.443 billion branch of the global mobile phone market, and it will almost reach half of the total. As for the tablet computer, the iPad has opened the door for tablet computers, and has led many manufacturers to invest in tablet computers. In the future, it will become an important part of personal electronic consumption. However, these smart phones and tablet PCs require miniaturized PCBs as originals. At the same time, the soft board will also be more used in smart electronic products. Take the iPhone4 as an example: In order to achieve the purpose of thinning, the battery and the PCB are reduced, and the arrangement is left and right, and the width is constant. Avoiding the problem that the thickness of iPhone3GS is thickened due to stacking. The iPad2 also uses a miniaturized PCB board. The battery is placed in the middle area, and each hard board module is arranged on both sides. The soft board is used as the signal connection.

As emerging applications continue to expand, it is predicted that global PCB output will grow steadily in recent years, while Taiwan and the mainland are expected to grow at more than 10% due to the turnaround effect caused by the Japanese earthquake.