2009-2011 Global Connector Manufacturers Top 23 Revenue Rankings

The connector industry is a mature industry. In 2010, the global connector market was US$45.3 billion, an increase of 28.4% over 2009. The major markets are in the automotive, computer, telecommunications, industrial, consumer electronics, aerospace and military sectors.

The automotive market is the largest market for connectors, accounting for approximately 21.4%. An average of about $102 connector per car is required. Usually the automotive connectors are sold to automobile wiring harness manufacturers, and then sold to vehicle manufacturers by automotive wiring harness manufacturers. Large automotive wire harness manufacturers often have the ability to make connectors. Therefore, automotive wire harness manufacturers are generally connector manufacturers, such as Yazaki, Sumitomo Electric, Delphi, respectively, is the front of the vehicle wiring harness 1,2,3. Tyco Electronics, FCI, and South Korea's KET are the manufacturers with the highest percentage of automotive connectors.

Most of the desktop connector market is divided by international companies, with Hon Hai accounting for the highest proportion. The desktop market is stable and lacks growth momentum. 98% of laptops are OEM companies in Taiwan, so Taiwan is also the region with the largest number of notebook computer connector manufacturers, as many as 200, most of which are between 10-700 million Taiwan dollars. Among them, Hon Hai is also the largest.

About 35 to 45 connectors are used in a laptop (NB), which is equivalent to $10 worth of production. A NB uses a variety of connectors, of which the CPU socket is the most productive, especially after the launch of the new Intel Capella platform. The CPU Socket is up to $3 to $4, which is the largest gain for Hon Hai and Jiaze. Source of interest. The price of connectors for the individual display adapters in other notebooks is also more than US$1. The top three companies with Taiwanese connector profitability are NB-related manufacturers, namely Jiaze, which produces CPU sockets, and Fanjia, which has a high proportion of NB connectors. In the CPU Socket segment, Hon Hai, Tyco, Molex and Kasae are the top four global manufacturers.

Mobile phone connectors are important electronic components in mobile phones. Their quality is directly related to the quality of mobile phones and the reliability of their use. Most of the phone's after-sales quality problems are also related to connectors. The types of connectors used in mobile phones vary slightly depending on their products. The average number of connectors varies from 5 to 15. The product types can be divided into internal FPC connectors and board-to-board connectors, externally connected I/Os. Connector, battery, SIM card connector and Camera Socket.

AMPHENOL is the largest manufacturer of mobile phone connectors and is best at precision interface connection such as SIM card connector, SD card connection, USB connection, HDMI connection, RF conversion, etc. Japanese manufacturers are good at FPC connections and board-to-board connections. JAE and JST are good at PFC and TF card connections. Panasonic's NAIS specializes in board-to-board connections, and Apple is its largest customer, and Broadcom also specializes in board-to-board connections. MOLEX is good at TF card connection.