NTI 100: Asia in the driver's seat: the third time's the charm for Ibiden but PCB makers from Korea and Taiwan enter the top five.It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have tough at the top. The NTI NTI NewTech Infosystems (software company, Irvine, California) NTI Nuclear Threat Initiative NTI National Transit Institute (New Brunswick, New Jersey) NTI Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated 100 shows that Ibiden reclaimed re·claim tr.v. re·claimed, re·claim·ing, re·claims 1. To bring into or return to a suitable condition for use, as cultivation or habitation: reclaim marshlands; reclaim strip-mined land. its title as the world's largest PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. maker in 2004, its third time on top. The winner for 2003, Nippon Nippon (nĭp`ŏn, nĭpŏn`), name for Japan, derived from Dai Nippon, meaning Great Japan. The expression comes from the Chinese ideograph for the place where the sun comes from, or Land of the Rising Sun. Mektron, came in a close second, with CMK CMK Consumer & Market Knowledge CMK C. M. Kornbluth (Lemony Snicket) dropping from No. 2 to third place. Ibiden, Mektron and CMK have been playing a "seesaw (language) SEESAW - An early system on the IBM 701. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. " game for the top during the last few years. But Korea's Samsung Electro-Mechanics  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . (SEMCO SEMCO Southeastern Michigan Computer Organization, Inc. SEMCO Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. SEMCO Systems Engineering and Management Company SEMCO Salisbury Engineering Manufacturing Company (Missouri) ) and Taiwan's Unimicron have moved into fourth and fifth place, respectively, knocking Hitachi Hitachi (hētä`chē), city (1990 pop. 202,141), Ibaraki prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on the Kashima Sea. The city is a leading producer of Japan's electrical equipment. Chemical from fourth down to seventh place, and Shinko Denki Denki is a Digital Toy company, based in Dundee, Scotland. It was set up in March 2000 by four former members of DMA Design to focus on developing entertainment software for hand-held and mass-market devices such as Game Boy Advance, Interactive Digital Television (iDTV) and from fifth to sixth place. This edition of the NTI 100 boasts 138 PCB makers who had revenues of at least US$50 million in 2004, up from 124 for the previous year. Work on this feature article began in September September: see month. 2004 and took nine months, off and on, to finish. As might be expected, the rankings changed and then changed again while the data for this project was being assembled as·sem·ble v. as·sem·bled, as·sem·bling, as·sem·bles v.tr. 1. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury. 2. . Compiling com·pile tr.v. com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles 1. To gather into a single book. 2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: this table becomes more difficult each year because of the increasing number of flex circuit See flexible circuit. makers whose "total" reported output includes assembly values. Most flex makers cannot or will not separate bare-board values from their total output. The author did his best to separate the wheat from the chaff chaff 1. chaffed hay; called also chop. 2. the winnowings from a threshing, consisting of awns, husks, glumes and other relatively indigestible materials. , but much doubtful data had to be left in. Also, continuous mergers and acquisitions make the task more difficult. Therefore, use due caution when interpreting the data. Perhaps it would be more useful to compile To translate a program written in a high-level programming language into machine language. See compiler. flex and rigid board makers separately in the future. As always, some mistakes are unavoidable in a quest of this scope. Any errors in revenue or missing companies are the responsibility of the author. Please send him any corrections or suggestions. The author would like to express his gratitude Gratitude agrimony traditional symbol for gratitude. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 172] Androcles because he had once extracted a thorn from its paw, the lion refrained from attacking Androcles in the arena. [Rom. Lit. to those PCB makers who were very cooperative. Company News A number of mergers and acquisitions took place in 2004, some friendly and some hostile. The acquisition of Hong n. 1. A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage. Kong's Elec & Eltek by Kingboard Chemicals was a more or less hostile takeover Hostile Takeover A takeover attempt that is strongly resisted by the target firm. Notes: Hostile takeovers are usually bad news, as the employee moral of the target firm can quickly turn to animosity against the acquiring firm. at gunpoint. The reorganization of the KB PCB group, consisting of several board makers (Techwise, Techwise-Shirai, Jiangmen Jiangmen (江門, pinyin: Jiāngmén) is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong province in southern China with a population of about 3.8 million. History The port of Jiangmen was known as Kong-Moon when it was forced to open to western trade in 1902. Glory Face, etc.) is still in progress. The former Elec & Eltek had $410 million in output, of which $60 million came from its Thailand Thailand (tī`lănd, –lənd), Thai Prathet Thai [land of the free], officially Kingdom of Thailand, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 65,444,000), 198,455 sq mi (514,000 sq km), Southeast Asia. subsidiary. A total of $190 million came from the original KB PCB Group. Sanmina-SCI bought Pentex-Schweizer in a "friendly" manner. As a result of this purchase, Sanmina-SCI now has plants in the U.S., Malaysia Malaysia (məlā`zhə), independent federation (2005 est. pop. 23,953,000), 128,430 sq mi (332,633 sq km), Southeast Asia. The official capital and by far the largest city is Kuala Lumpur; Putrajaya is the adminstrative capital. , China, Singapore Singapore (sĭng`gəpôr, sĭng`ə–, sĭng'gəpôr`), officially Republic of Singapore, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,426,000), 240 sq mi (625 sq km). and Germany Germany (jûr`mənē), Ger. Deutschland, officially Federal Republic of Germany, republic (2005 est. pop. 82,431,000), 137,699 sq mi (356,733 sq km). . Viasystems is closing its plants in the Netherlands Netherlands (nĕth`ərləndz), Du. Nederland or Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, officially Kingdom of the Netherlands, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 16,407,000), 15,963 sq mi (41,344 sq km), NW Europe. and Canada Canada (kăn`ədə), independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of . Some of the products made in these plants are being transferred to China, where operations have been expanding--not only in volume but also in technology. Therefore, Viasystems' overall output in 2005 is expected to grow despite the closures. Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. maker Coretec closed its UK subsidiary, but it almost purchased Unicircuit. Merix agreed to purchase Hong Kong-based EPC (1) (Entertainment PC) See HTPC. (2) (Electronic Product Code) A standard code for RFID tags administered by EPCglobal Inc. (www.epcglobalinc.org). recently, which surprised everyone, although the final purchase has not taken place at the time of this writing. Solectron Solectron Corporation (NYSE: SLR), is a global electronics manufacturing company for original equipment manufacturer (OEMs). It pioneered the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry in 1977 and is a leader in the field. decided to acquire Teradyne's PCB assembly unit. There are many more mergers and acquisitions in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , but they are small in scale and do not influence the top PCB maker list. The Japanese Japanese (jăp'ənēz`), language of uncertain origin that is spoken by more than 125 million people, most of whom live in Japan. There are also many speakers of Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Taiwan, parts of the United States, and maker Airex Inc. was acquired by Tokyo Tokyo (tō`kēō), city (1990 pop. 8,163,573), capital of Japan and of Tokyo prefecture, E central Honshu, at the head of Tokyo Bay. Computer Service in 2004. Arrk Corp. of Osaka Osaka (ō`säkä), city (1990 pop. 2,623,801), capital of Osaka prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Osaka Bay, at the mouth of the Yodo River. bought three Japanese makers: Satosen, Nippon Micron and Clover clover, any plant of the genus Trifolium, leguminous hay and forage plants of the family Leguminosae (pulse family). Most of the species are native to north temperate or subtropical regions, and all the American cultivated forms have been introduced from Electronics. Arrk also took 33% of the equity in Korean Korean, language of uncertain ancestry. It is thought by some scholars to be akin to Japanese, by others to be a member of the Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages), and by still others to be unrelated to any known maker Accuris. Arm Electronics bought Diatech from Mitsubishi Mitsubishi: see zaibatsu. Gas Chemical. Meiko, the most aggressive Japanese maker today, bought Miyagi Miyagi (mēyä`gē), prefecture (1990 pop. 2,248,521), 2,808 sq mi (7,273 sq km), N Honshu, Japan. A mountainous prefecture, it is known for the more than 200 pine-covered islands in Matsushima Bay. Sendai is the capital. Denshi from Nippon Autogiken and is investing $70 million to make the facility a major HDI HDI Human Development Index (UNDP yardstick of human welfare) HDI Help Desk Institute HDI Humpty Dumpty Institute (New York, New York) HDI High Density Interconnect microvia plant in Japan. Prior to this acquisition, Meiko bought Togoshi, a small but very capable high layer-count multilayer board maker. DTCT (a joint venture between Dainippon Printing and Toshiba) is now completely absorbed into Dainippon Printing's electronics unit. Sharp Corp. operated a small captive captive said of naturally wild or feral animals kept in captivity for educational and scientific investigation with no attempt being made to domesticate them. shop in Osaka until recently. Now, the firm has changed its strategy and built a substantial flex manufacturing plant in Hiroshima. The new plant is now in operation and you can expect Sharp to appear in the NTI 100 within a year or so. Kyocera SLC (Subscriber Loop Carrier) Lucent's designation for its digital loop carrier (DLC) products. See digital loop carrier. See also 386SLC. Technology (KSLCT) is spending nearly $180 million to build a new IC substrate The base layer of a structure such as a chip, multichip module (MCM), printed circuit board or disk platter. Silicon is the most widely used substrate for chips. Fiberglass (FR4) is mostly used for printed circuit boards, and ceramic is used for MCMs. manufacturing plant near Kyoto. Apparently, the new plant wants to tap into the cell processor developed by the Sony-Toshiba-IBM (STI STI systolic time intervals. ) consortium. Such a move is quite natural for the former IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Yasu. KSLCT will make a quantum jump quantum jump n. 1. Abrupt change from one energy level to another, especially such a change in the orbit of an electron with the loss or gain of a quantum of energy. 2. A quantum leap. in the future. Regional News Japanese PCB makers are investing aggressively in Japan and overseas. For 2005 through 2006, the total investment is estimated to be in excess of $1 billion. In a few years, they will harvest the fruits of this investment, boosting their positions in ranking. Their overseas production was worth about $2.7 billion in 2004. But most Japanese makers have pulled out of North America. Kyosha closed its Mexican Mexican named after or originating in Mexico. Mexican axolotl see ambystomamexicanum. Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum single-sided board facility in March 2005. Tokyo Print, Hitachi Chemical, Yamamoto Manufacturing, Toppan Electronics (now Toppan-NEC) and Hokuriku Electric (Rexcan) left North America some time ago. The only remaining Japanese PCB maker in North America is Ibiden America at Elgin, IL. It dissolved dis·solve v. dis·solved, dis·solv·ing, dis·solves v.tr. 1. To cause to pass into solution: dissolve salt in water. 2. its JV in China and bought back the majority share of its Indonesian JV from Hitachi Chemical. CMK also withdrew from its Belgium single-sided board operation. In the 1980s and 1990s, North America and Japan divided the PCB manufacturing world in two, having more than 30% apiece a·piece adv. To or for each one; each: There is enough bread for everyone to have two slices apiece. [Middle English a pece : a, a; see a . After the IT bubble A bit in bubble memory or a symbol in a bubble chart. burst in 2001, North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. production continued to dwindle dwin·dle v. dwin·dled, dwin·dling, dwin·dles v.intr. To become gradually less until little remains. v.tr. To cause to dwindle. See Synonyms at decrease. and there is no sign of recovery for its domestic production. TABLE 1 testifies to the decreasing status of North American PCB makers. There are approximately 475 PCB makers remaining in North America, operating about 520 factories. But this number continues to decline. Photocircuits Corp. closed its Mexican operation in April 2005 and closed its Atlanta facility in June, keeping only a minor single-sided operation open. It seems that the number of PCB makers in Europe is now less than 400. AT&S of Austria and Aspocomp of Finland, two cell phone board makers remaining in Europe, are expanding in China by building second microvia board manufacturing plants. This suggests that their European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. operations may be restricted to prototyping and QTA QTA Quetta (Pakistan) QTA Quick Turn Around QTA Disregard (Ham Radio Q signal) QTA Quality Trait Analysis QTA Qwest Total Advantage QTA Qualification Test Article operations in the near future, as their major customers are pouring more energy in China. In Korea, the owner of Korea Circuit decided to sell his shares in the Korea Circuit Group (which includes fast-growing flex maker Interflex) to rival flex maker Young Poong. Now Young Poong Group's PCB operations may produce an output of about $800 million for 2005. Asustek of Taiwan attempted to buy flex maker Flexium, but opposition by Kinsus's shareholders nixed the deal. Kinsus is a publicly traded IC substrate maker and its major shareholder is Asustek. In Taiwan, Unicap, Dowlentec and Shea May went down, and a few more are rumored to be sinking. But Taiwan did extremely well in 2004. Taiwan's 34 entries in the NTI 100 are still less than that of Japan, but twice as many as North America, the third most-represented region on the list. The number of entries from Taiwan will not see any substantial increase in the future, but their rankings will continue to climb as the top-tier makers are expanding aggressively in China. Production capacity of 3 million [ft.sup.2]/month is becoming the norm among top Taiwan makers operating in China. Taiwan's output in China is estimated to have been $2.8 billion in 2004, which corresponds to 35% of China's total production of $8.05 billion. At the current rate of expansion in China, it may be no exaggeration Exaggeration Bunyon, Paul legendary giant, hero of tall tales of the logging camps. [Am. Folklore: The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyon] Jenkins’ ear trivial cause of a great quarrel. [Br. Hist. to predict that Taiwan's share of China's production may reach 50% or higher in several years. This will no doubt boost the position of Taiwan makers. There are only two "Chinese makers" on the list: China Circuit Technology Corp. (CCTC CCTC California Commission on Teacher Credentialing CCTC Canadian Council for Tobacco Control CCTC Central Carolina Technical College CCTC Consortium of College Testing Centers CCTC Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator CCTC Comanche County Telephone Co., Inc. ) and Shennan Circuits. Shennan is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a place in Shenzhen to build a new plant, but even with a new plant, neither Shennan Circuits nor CCTC will be big enough to attain higher positions. Dalian Pacific Electronics Co, a JV between several parties including one Japanese partner, just completed a new plant. The majority share is held by Dalian Multilayer Board (DMLB). IDMLB group may be listed near the bottom of the next NTI 100. SEMCO and Young Poong Group (YPG YPG Yards Per Game (football) YPG Yellow Pages Group (Canada) YPG Yuma Proving Ground (Arizona) YPG Young Pharmacists Group ) are now threatening the top positions held by three Japanese makers. SEMCO is rumored to be building an HDI microvia board manufacturing plant in Suzhou in 2006. In the ASEAN ASEAN: see Association of Southeast Asian Nations. ASEAN in full Association of Southeast Asian Nations International organization established by the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand in region, the growth of Singapore's MFS MFS Medicare fee schedule Technology in the last few years is phenomenal. Its majority shareholder is Wearnes Industry, which also holds a major share in U.S.-based M-Flex. The combined output of MFS and M-Flex was about $550 million, inclusive of inclusive of prep. Taking into consideration or account; including. valued-added FPC fpc - A translator from Backus's FP to C. ftp://apple.com/comp.sources.Unix/Volume20. assembly operations. Meet Your Maker TABLE 3 shows the number of PCB makers on the list from each region/country for 2004. As in previous years, Japan has the highest number of makers in the NTI 100, with 48 companies from Japan bringing in revenue of $11.93 billion last year. This figure includes the PCBs that Japanese companies This is a list of companies from Japan. Note that 株式会社 can be (and frequently is) read both kabushiki kaisha and kabushiki gaisha (with or without a hyphen). See that article for more details. built overseas in 2004, worth approximately $3 billion of that total. Despite its declining share, North America still has 17 entries, thanks to overseas production. Of the 12 manufacturers from Europe, four were Germans. Of the 11 from Hong Kong/China, only two were "Chinese." The growth of flex makers in the last few years has been remarkable. Of the 138 total entries, 30 are flex makers. That is, 22% are "traditional" flex makers. IPC's TMRC TMRC - /tmerk'/ The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the wellsprings of hacker culture. The 1959 "Dictionary of the TMRC Language" compiled by Peter Samson included several terms that became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see especially foo, mung, and frob). summary of 2004 world PCB production indicates that the flex production value was $5.47 billion and rigid-flex production was $973 million. Therefore, the total share of flex and rigid-flex in 2004 was 17%. So the 22% figure is in line with the share of flex and rigid-flex out of the total world production. Also, a number of traditional rigid board makers are engaged in flex manufacture-primarily cell phone makers. Flex was a niche product for a limited number of applications some time ago. Today, a variety of applications depend on flex, from flat-panel displays flat-pan·el display n. A thin lightweight video display used in laptop and notebook computers and employing liquid crystals, electroluminescence, or a similar alternative to cathode-ray tubes. Also called flat screen. to digital cameras. The rise of flex makers seems to reflect this trend. Nippon Mektron and Fujikura of Japan, Young Poong Group of Korea, Wearnes Group (MFS and M-Flex) of Singapore and 3M of the U.S. will be among the top PCB makers in 2005. Makers of cell phone boards using microvia technologies are in high positions on the list. Ibiden, Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO), Unimicron, CMK, Unitech, AT&S and Wus are good examples. Most flip-chip substrates are made using microvia technologies. Here, Ibiden, Shinko Denki, Nan Ya and Samsung are major makers of IC substrates using laser via technologies. Right now, many PCB makers in China are expanding existing plants and building new ones. All of these are foreign transplants Transplants are an American punk rock/rap rock supergroup. They formed in 1999 when Tim Armstrong of the band Rancid played his friend and roadie Rob Aston some beats he had made using Pro Tools and asked Rob if he would consider contributing lyrics. . These expansions and new plants will not contribute much to their 2005 revenues. However, they will harvest the fruit of these investments in 2006 and some of them are likely to join this ongoing "seesaw" game in the near future. DR. HAYAO NAKAHARA is president of N.T. Information (Huntington, NY) and consulting editor at PCD&M. He can be reached at 631-673-8571; nakanti@yahoo.com.
TABLE 1. Changing World of PWB Makers
RANK MAKER (2000) COUNTRY US$M
1 Sanmina-SCI US 1,500
2 Viasystems US 1,250
3 CMK JP 1,112
4 Ibiden JP 1,083
5 Hitachi Chem JP 973
6 Mektron JP 905
7 Compeq TW 802
8 Tyco us 780
9 Fujitsu JP 624
10 Multek us 600
TOP 10 TOTAL 9,629
RANK MAKER (2003) COUNTRY US$M
1 Mektron JP 1,117
2 CMK JP 1,049
3 Ibiden JP 1,027
4 Hitachi Chem JP 685
5 Shinko Denki JP 636
6 Unimicron TW 609
7 SEMCO KR 545
8 Compaq TW 462
9 Nanya PCB TW 453
10 Daeduck GRP KR 422
TOP 10 TOTAL 7,005
RANK MAKER (2004) COUNTRY US$M
1 Ibiden JP 1,226
2 Mektron JP 1,205
3 CMK JP 1,105
4 SEMCO KR 850
5 Unimicron TW 767
6 Shinko Denki JP 715
7 Hitachi Chem JP 687
8 King Board HK 600
9 Daeduck GRP KR 585
10 Nanya TW 565
TOP 10 TOTAL 8,305
Source: N.T. Information Ltd., May 2005
TABLE 2. 2004 NTI 100
MAKER COUNTRY 2003 2004
1 Ibiden Japan 1076 1226
2 Nippon Mektron Japan 1175 1205
3 CMK Japan 1099 1105
4 SEMCO Korea 638 850
5 Unimicron Taiwan 627 767
6 Shinko Electric Industry Japan 635 715
7 Hitachi Chemical Japan 657 658
8 KB Group HKG 150 600
9 Daeduck Group Korea 421 585
10 Nanya Taiwan 467 565
11 Korea Circuit Group Korea 385 549
12 Fujikura Japan 419 540
13 Multek US 350 535
14 Compaq Taiwan 428 513
15 Wus Taiwan 330 496
16 Sanmina-SCI US 360 490
17 Viasystems US 430 480
18 AT&S Austria 412 432
19 LG Electronics Korea 330 410
20 MMM-3M US 350 380
21 Tyco US 330 375
22 Gold Circuit Taiwan 248 353
23 Panasonic Elect. Device Japan 333 340
24 Nitto Denko Japan 300 339
25 Meiko Eletcronics Japan 260 335
26 Kyoden PCB Group Japan 276 321
27 Unitech Taiwan 214 308
28 Tripod Taiwan 200 302
29 Toppan-NEC Japan 314 295
30 Sumitomo Denko Japan 267 285
31 Meadville Group HKG 200 260
32 MCS (Mitsui Mining) Japan 245 257
33 Mitsusbishi GC Group Japan 240 253
34 Daisho Denshi Japan 240 251
35 TTM Technologies US 180 242
36 Chin Poon Taiwan 207 232
37 Elna Japan 187 228
38 Ruwel Germany 215 228
39 Photocircuits US 234 220
40 Young Poong Korea 124 220
41 Sumitomo Bakelite Japan 210 219
42 Sony Chemical Japan 210 219
43 Shirai Denshi Japan 175 219
44 Fujitsu Interconnect Tech Japan 232 214
45 Shindo Denshi Japan 200 210
46 ASE Taiwan 140 210
47 Career Taiwan 135 210
48 Goda Taiwan 170 200
49 Ya Hsin Taiwan 151 198
50 Aspocomp Finland 185 198
51 Dynamic Detail (DDi) US 195 195
52 MFS Singapore 128 195
53 Broad Tech Taiwan 140 190
54 Vertex Taiwan 156 186
55 Foxconn PCB Group Taiwan 135 185
56 PPT Taiwan 135 177
57 NTK Japan 170 175
58 Pou Chen Group Taiwan 138 175
59 Merix US 113 174
60 Maruwa Mfg Japan 109 171
61 Shinko Mfg Japan 161 169
62 Topsearch HKG 149 169
63 Hannstar Taiwan 124 163
64 Hutchinson US 120 155
65 Isu/Petasys Korea 135 152
66 SI Flex Korea 112 143
67 EPC HKG 130 143
68 Simmtech Korea 85 141
69 Kinsus Taiwan 67 140
70 Kyosha Japan 102 138
71 Wuerth Electronics Germany 109 138
72 KCE Thailand 128 138
73 EIT US 110 135
74 Sanwa Denshi Circuit Japan 127 133
75 M-Flex US 65 130
76 Eastern Co Ltd Japan 95 125
77 Yamamoto Mfg Co Ltd Japan 116 124
78 Fuba Germany 129 124
79 Dynamic Taiwan 61 122
80 Casio Micro-Electronics Japan 106 120
81 Elite Taiwan 85 120
82 CST Group Italy 52 120
83 Schweizer Germany 109 113
84 Yu Fo Taiwan 69 112
85 Arrk PCB Group Japan 0 111
86 APCB Taiwan 89 111
87 Airex,Inc Japan 152 109
88 Ellington HKG 72 108
89 FCI (AREVA Group Co) France 75 108
90 CCTC China 79 105
91 Eurocir Spain 85 104
92 Sakai Denshi Japan 95 98
93 Itabashi Seiki Japan 95 98
94 Yamanashi MEW Japan 92 97
95 Yeti Taiwan 105 96
96 Hitachi Cable Japan 86 95
97 Cosmotech Korea 67 95
98 Santa Light Metal Japan 89 93
99 Cire Group France 81 91
100 Kyocera SLC Tech Japan 82 90
101 Innovex US 81 90
102 Parlex US 75 86
103 Gultech Singapore 79 84
104 Unic Taiwan 64 83
105 Flexium Taiwan 48 78
106 Redboard HKG 65 78
107 Kyoei Sangyo Japan 74 78
108 Sanyang Korea 38 76
109 Sawkwang Korea 60 76
110 EELY Taiwan 67 75
111 DAP Korea 48 75
112 Estec Group HKG 65 74
113 Nihon Auto Giken Japan 73 70
114 Plotech Taiwan 54 70
115 Coretec Canada 52 70
116 Boardtek Taiwan 46 68
117 Hokuriku Danko Japan 65 67
119 JVC Japan 67 67
120 Oki Printed Circuit Japan 65 67
121 Biloda Taiwan 60 65
122 Teradyne us 50 63
123 Aiko Kiki Japan 61 62
124 Tanaka Precious Metal Japan 57 59
125 Shin Asahi Denshi Japan 55 56
126 Cicorel Swiss 20 56
127 Sherman Circuits China 54 56
128 Mitsubishi Electric Japan 52 55
129 Elvia France 42 55
130 NBC Japan 48 54
131 Tat Chun HKG 40 54
132 Cosmo Denshi Japan 52 53
133 Accuris Korea 31 53
134 Prestwick UK 47 53
135 PWC Taiwan 57 51
136 DNP Electronics Japan 59 50
137 Yang An Taiwan 58 50
138 Interconnect Technology US 50 50
TOP 138 TOTAL 24,749 29,968
MAKER COMMENTS
1 Ibiden Microvia products>80%
2 Nippon Mektron Slower growth in 2004H2
3 CMK More profit-oriented
4 SEMCO 110 million cell phone boards
5 Unimicron Operates Uniflex-Kunshan
6 Shinko Electric Industry Major supplier to Intel
7 Hitachi Chemical Increased investment in China
8 KB Group Bought Elec & Eltek
9 Daeduck Group SSB plant in Tianjin, China
10 Nanya IC substrate in Taiwan
11 Korea Circuit Group Sold to Young Poong Group
12 Fujikura Thai and Shanghai expanding
13 Multek Very healthy growth in 2005
14 Compaq Will be profitable again in 2005
15 Wus China operation is growing
16 Sanmina-SCI Bought Pentex-Schweizer
17 Viasystems Massive expansion in China
18 AT&S Building 2nd plant in Shanghai
19 LG Electronics Emphasis on higher layer count
20 MMM-3M Flex for printer cartridge
21 Tyco Closed Austin plant
22 Gold Circuit Taiwan pursues high layer count
23 Panasonic Elect. Device ALIVH plant in Taiwan
24 Nitto Denko Suzhou flex plant expanding
25 Meiko Eletcronics Expansion in Japan & China
26 Kyoden PCB Group Consists of several plants
27 Unitech 2nd Shanghai plant in operation
28 Tripod 3rd Xishan plant in operation
29 Toppan-NEC Toyama concentrates on IC sub
30 Sumitomo Denko Philippine plant expanded
31 Meadville Group DMC is now operational
32 MCS (Mitsui Mining) Wild guess
33 Mitsusbishi GC Group Parent MGC is "BT" king
34 Daisho Denshi More into rigid-flex & IC sub
35 TTM Technologies Chippewa Falls expanded
36 Chin Poon JVs in Thailand and Suzhou
37 Elna Did very well in 2004
38 Ruwel Romania plant?
39 Photocircuits Closed Atlanta in June
40 Young Poong Purchased KCG,S800M/2005
41 Sumitomo Bakelite Flex plant in Hanoi, Vietnam
42 Sony Chemical Flex is almost all in Suzhou
43 Shirai Denshi Japan & China
44 Fujitsu Interconnect Tech Vietnam plant doing well
45 Shindo Denshi Flexible substrates
46 ASE Big fire in Chung Li factory
47 Career Growing flex maker
48 Goda Membrane switch & flex maker
49 Ya Hsin Building a PCB plant in Suzhou
50 Aspocomp Doubling Suzhou Microvia
51 Dynamic Detail (DDi) UK operations closed & sold
52 MFS One of the fastest growing flex
companies
53 Broad Tech Captive shop for Guangdai
54 Vertex China flex doing well
55 Foxconn PCB Group Building a rigid plant in Yentai
56 PPT Emphasis on flip-chip substrate
57 NTK Collaborating with Nanya
58 Pou Chen Group Kunshan plant operational
59 Merix Bought DCS & EPC
60 Maruwa Mfg Flex specialist, tie-up with GCE
61 Shinko Mfg Sumitomo Mining subsidiary
62 Topsearch Shaoguan plant ready
63 Hannstar Massive investment in Jiangin
64 Hutchinson HOD suspension specialist
65 Isu/Petasys Ciscofavorite
66 SI Flex 3rd largest flex maker in Korea
67 EPC Bought by Merix
68 Simmtech Memory module and IC sub
69 Kinsus Merger with Flexium cancelled
70 Kyosha Closed Mexican SSB plant
71 Wuerth Electronics Very stable maker
72 KCE KCE Technology expanded
73 EIT Hyper BGA started to grow
74 Sanwa Denshi Circuit Consolidated 5 subsidiaries
75 M-Flex $283M total including assembly
76 Eastern Co Ltd CSP/BGA Specialist
77 Yamamoto Mfg Co Ltd Profitable, finally
78 Fuba Going through rough time
79 Dynamic Tremendous growth
80 Casio Micro-Electronics Reel-to-reel flex substrate
81 Elite Captive shop
82 CST Group Bought Alcatel Italia & Zinco
83 Schweizer Big fire in Schramberg plant
84 Yu Fo China growing
85 Arrk PCB Group Satosen+Clover+Nippon Micro
86 APCB China plant expanded
87 Airex,Inc Sold to Tokyo Instrument
88 Ellington Intel mother board
89 FCI (AREVA Group Co) A new flex plant in Singapore 2004
90 CCTC Microvia increasing
91 Eurocir Largest SSB maker in Europe
92 Sakai Denshi Flex subcontractorto Sharp
93 Itabashi Seiki Sony is a major customer
94 Yamanashi MEW Microvia specialist +Suzho
95 Yeti Not doing well
96 Hitachi Cable 2-metal flex substrate for INTEL
97 Cosmotech SSB plant in Dongguang
98 Santa Light Metal Back-end flex plant in Zhuhai
99 Cire Group Consisting of several plants
100 Kyocera SLC Tech $180M substrate plant in Kyoto
101 Innovex Moving everything to Thailand
102 Parlex More into China
103 Gultech Still in red ink
104 Unic A plant in Hanzhou, China
105 Flexium Merger with Kinsus cancelled
106 Redboard Second plant in planning stage
107 Kyoei Sangyo Struggling
108 Sanyang Growing flex maker
109 Sawkwang Don't know this one
110 EELY Flex & membrane
111 DAP Microvia specialist
112 Estec Group Consists of three plants
113 Nihon Auto Giken Sold Miyagi Denshito Meiko
114 Plotech China growing
115 Coretec Closed UK operation
116 Boardtek Steady
117 Hokuriku Danko Mostly from Malaysia STH
119 JVC Shrinking
120 Oki Printed Circuit Steady
121 Biloda Captive
122 Teradyne PCBA operation sold to Solectron
123 Aiko Kiki Steady
124 Tanaka Precious Metal Steady
125 Shin Asahi Denshi Freed from MACO
126 Cicorel Bought Photochemie
127 Sherman Circuits Planning a new plant
128 Mitsubishi Electric 100% microvia
129 Elvia Former Alcatel Coutances
130 NBC Don't know this one
131 Tat Chun Jack of all trades
132 Cosmo Denshi Toyobo subsidiary, flex
133 Accuris Made good progress in 2004
134 Prestwick The largest in UK
135 PWC In bad shape
136 DNP Electronics DTCT is now attached to this
137 Yang An Good maker but ...
138 Interconnect Technology Old name: Northrop-Grumman
TOP 138 TOTAL 20.8% GROWTH, 77% OF THE WORLD'S
BOARD PRODUCTION
TABLE 3. Number of Entries in NTI-138, Bare Board Only
REGION NO. OF $ MILLION TOP TOP
ENTRIES MAKER ($M) MAKER
Japan 48 11,931 1,226 Ibiden
Taiwan 34 6,962 767 Unimicron
N. America 17 3,870 535 Multek
S. Korea 13 3,425 850 Samsung
Europe 12 1,712 432 AT & S
HK/China 11 1,720 600 Kingboard
ASEAN 3 417 195 MFS
TOTAL 138 30,037 4,605
Source: N.T. Information Ltd., June 2005
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