After 2010, the global connector market has rebounded rapidly, mainly due to the continuous development of downstream industries such as downstream data communications, computers and peripherals, consumer electronics, and automobiles. The global connector market demand continues to grow, and the market scale is generally expanding. Connectors, as key components for current or signal connections, are also an important part of the industrial system. As large as airplanes and rockets, as small as mobile phones and TVs, connectors appear in a variety of different forms, building bridges between circuits or other components, taking on the role of electric current or signal connections. The sales of the connector industry increased to 62 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, and in 2018, the forecasts of major industry organizations are still becoming optimistic. From the perspective of the development trend of connectors in 2018, which aspects are worth paying attention to and particularly worth seeing?
The rapid development of 5G communication
China is actively working on 5G network construction, which means that a new giant cake is waiting for Chinese and foreign telecom equipment vendors to "cut the knife". Many communications equipment manufacturers have already participated in the investment and testing of 5G, which means that the country has initially formed Relatively complete industrial chain, including Huawei, Datang, ZTE, HiSilicon, Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, Motorola, Shanghai Bell and other domestic and foreign telecom equipment manufacturers have launched commercial or pre-commercial products. The core network, fiber optic cables, and distribution equipment benefit first, followed by access network equipment, and then network optimization, test equipment, and network management software. Terminals and operators benefit slightly later in the time series, and value-added services and operation and maintenance services are provided. The business finally benefited.
The development of 5G has greatly increased the demand for connectors. The demand for high-end coaxial radio frequency connectors, RF antennas, fiber optic connectors, QSFP, high-speed backplane connectors, etc. is increasing.
2010-2020 China's RF connector market size (100 million yuan)
2010-2020 China's optical fiber connector market size (100 million yuan)
Increased demand for aerospace connectors
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the state will continue to increase support for the aerospace industry. With the advancement of manned aerospace projects and lunar exploration projects, the Beidou navigation industry will rise, and it is expected to launch hundreds of arrows and hundreds of stars. The lack of my country's current national defense construction determines that the future investment in national defense construction will continue to maintain a relatively high growth. It is expected that national investment in aerospace, military electronics and other fields will reach a compound growth rate of 20% in the next 5 to 10 years. At present, my country is accelerating military modernization and informatization construction, and the rapid growth in demand for new equipment will make the market for military connectors rapidly expand.
2009-2017 China's military connector market scale development trend and forecast (100 million yuan)
During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the domestic military connector market reached 9 billion annually. With the country’s increased support for high-tech industries such as aviation, aerospace, information, and transportation during the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period and the implementation of a series of national aerospace plans, the domestic market’s demand for high-end electrical connectors will rise strongly. In 2011, the market capacity of domestic military connectors accounted for about 6% of the total capacity (according to the amount), and its sales were about 4.3 billion yuan. It is estimated that during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, China's military connector market will reach 9 billion yuan per year.
Stable demand for smart mobile terminals such as smartphones
Smart products are showing a trend of being lighter and thinner, higher performance, more functions and longer battery life, which will require connectors used in them to have smaller sizes, wider operating frequencies, and higher transmission speeds. In recent years, the rapid development of wearable devices, Internet of Things and other fields has put forward new requirements for the connector industry, especially the demand for FPC series products has increased significantly.
Under the background of electronic products pursuing light, thin, short, and small designs, the FPC market has a bright future. Various high-tech electronic products that have emerged in recent years have used this technology in large quantities, such as digital cameras, digital video cameras, and car satellite orientation positioning. Devices, LCD TVs, notebook computers, etc., are especially widely used in communication fields such as mobile phones.
2013-2018E global FPC market demand scale (unit: billion U.S. dollars)
Automotive and industrial connectors or open new growth space
With the global restrictions on fuel vehicles, the development of new energy vehicles is very fast. Especially in China, becoming a new energy vehicle power has become a national strategy. The implementation of Industry 4.0 and "Made in China 2025" has higher requirements and greater demand for industrial connectors. The automotive and smart manufacturing connector market will become the world’s largest connector application mayor.
2017 Connector Application Distribution Map
The automotive field is expected to open up new growth space. Automotive innovation is mainly in automotive electronics. With the popularization of new energy vehicles, ADAS, driverless driving and the Internet of Vehicles in the future, the proportion of automotive electronics will continue to increase. The strong growth of automotive electronics will promote the continuous increase in the penetration rate. It is expected that by 2020, the penetration rate of automotive electronics will increase from the current 30% to more than 50%.
The demand for the connector market is still growing. Due to the improvement of China's intelligent manufacturing and the integrity of the supply chain, the overall demand for the connector market in China has grown rapidly, leading the rest of the world by a large margin. This trend is very conducive to China's connector companies to become bigger and stronger, and to improve the level of technology research and development and manufacturing. This is extremely important for the full realization of the goal of "Made in China 2025", the promotion of China's technological level, and the healthy development of the country's economy.
Postscript: "Connect" to see the trend
The above roughly presents some new faces and new challenges of the connector market in 2018. Under the background of 5G and China Made 2025, we have reason to believe that the connector market in 2018 will be full of infinite possibilities and may appear. Products that change the market structure to subvert our traditional thinking about connectors.
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