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Advanced Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Industry Report, 2007-2008
Research In China, Aug 2008, Pages: 145
Advanced printed circuit board or PCB, refers to fields requiring a high entry threshold. IC substrate has a closer relationship with semiconductor packaging, so it is beyond the research scope of the report.
In 2007, China's mobile phone output exceeded 600 million units. At present, 90 percent of mobile phones adopt HDI board. Based on the estimation that one square meter of HDI board fits the production of around 180 units of mobile phones, we conclude that the market demand of China's mobile phones for HDI board is 3 million square meters. In addition, from the perspective of the production capacity of China's key HDI manufacturers, China's HDI production capacity cannot meet the rapid growth in market demand, although some manufacturers have expanded their production capacity. The companies in Mainland China that are able to mass produce HDI board include Multek Corp., Compeq Manufacturing Co., United Power, AT&S, Ibiden, Shanghai Meadville, Shantou Goworld, Huafeng Weixian, Meiko, and Shanghai Unitech Electronics Co., Ltd.
Multek is a large PCB works affiliated to Flextronics, and United Power is the subsidiary of Unimicron, the world's largest handset PCB producer, which supplies PCB for Nokia and Motorola via Foxconn. Compeq Manufacturing (Huizhou), with Motorola as its key client, is the unit of Compeq, Taiwan's mobile phone PCB producer. AT&S is the subsidiary of Austria AT&S in Mainland China. Ibiden with Nokia as its sole client is based in Beijing. Shanghai Meadville is affiliated to Hong Kong Meadville Group, and Huafeng Weixian is a unit of Daisho Microline Holdings Ltd. Meiko has the ability to mass produce but its main business is focused on the flat-panel TV and automobile industries. Shanghai Unitech is the subsidiary of Taiwan Unitech. Among these companies, only Shantou Goworld belongs to Mainland China.
Due to the successive price cut in the promotion of laptops, the HDI laptop market is limited mainly to several types with screen sizes below 13-inch in consideration of cost, although Intel gives much support. The HDI laptop market currently amounts to 10 percent of laptop shipments and HDI design will not be introduced completely to the laptop market due to cost. HannStar and Gold Circuit Electronics Ltd. jointly dominate the global laptop PCB industry, taking up 75 percent of the market, and the rest of the market is shared by Unimicron, Compeq and Unitech. Market entry threshold is very high for new entrants.
The entry barriers for memory boards, however, are not low. The gross profit margins of memory PCB board is very low, at most about 10%, and given the deduction of related operating expenses profit would be expected to remain in the single digits. Only the large scale production of memory boards can be profitable, especially considering equipment depreciation. The global leading memory PCB board manufacturers are SIMMTECH in South Korea and Tripod, both of which occupy more than 80% of the global market.
At present, Tripod is still the largest photovoltaic panel producer in Taiwan. WUS Printed Circuit Co. believes that the TFT-LCD industry has entered a period of maturity, and it is impossible to achieve a rapid growth in the industry. Furthermore, the TFT-LCD market fluctuates so much that WUS Printed Circuit decided to exit the photovoltaic panel field, and to focus on PCB for mobile phones and laptops. After the exit of WUS Printed Circuit, Taiwan PCB TechVest Co. entered the market aggressively.
As for the auto electronics PCB market, the entry threshold is even higher. The well-known manufacturers in the market include Viasystems Group, CMK, Meiko, Jinghua in Mainland China and Unitech in Taiwan. The market has maintained its layout for many years.
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