5G BUILD-OUT Will Speed PCB Fabricators' Gains

摘要

There is an ongoing changing of the guard when it comes to drivers of the PCB industry. Mobile and PC-related end-products are slowly giving way to the emerging 5G infrastructure. This swing is just beginning to impact the NTI-100 list of the world's largest fabricators, but it's only one of the new trends seen as we collected and analyzed this year's data. Another interesting development: A pair of fabricators from the US and Europe have come to dominate their respective "home" regions. This year's NTI-100 report is the 22nd in the "top fabricator" series since the author started in 1998. (The "100" refers not to the number of companies ranked but rather the entities with $100 million or more in PCB revenue in the last calendar year.) As more Chinese PCB fabricators achieve sales revenues of $100 million or more, many privately owned, it is becoming extremely difficult to get accurate data. Without the help of CPCA, this work would have been impossible. The author would like to express his gratitude to Angela Chen of CPCA, who collected valuable data. Although the data have some flaws, they are no fault of CPCA.