Worldwide PCB output for 2005: Asia leads the way in board production, and the U.S. cements its position at the bottom of the list.The 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. output by Asia Pacific countries accounted for more than 80% of global output in 2005. When it comes to laminate laminate, n a thin slice of porcelain or plastic fabricated in a dental lab, which is cemented to the front of the teeth to cover gaps, whiten stained teeth, or reshape chipped or broken teeth. consumption, Asia Pacific's share totaled more than 85%. In 2000, there were seven U.S.-based board makers in the top 20 list, mostly in the top rankings. In 2005, the number had dwindled down to three, mostly in the lower rankings. There will be at least seven makers in 2006 projected to have more than $1 billion in revenue, all located in the Asia Pacific region: Ibiden, 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, CMK CMK Consumer & Market Knowledge CMK C. M. Kornbluth (Lemony Snicket) , Shinko Electric, Nanya PCB, Unimicron Technology and 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 . , not necessarily in this order. In this report, we will review from various angles what happened in our industry during 2005, and we will attempt to provide a forecast into the future. PCB Output and Laminate Consumption in 2005 Global PCB output for 2005 is estimated to have been $42.5 billion, as shown here. (It took the world five years to regain its 2000 output.) If we list the Top 10 producing countries, we find: 1. Japan $10,450 2. China $10,060 3. Taiwan $5,980 4. Korea $4,533 5. US $4,360 6. Germany $1,220 7. Thailand $967 8. Singapore $545 9. Malaysia $455 10. Philippines $386 Top 10 Total $38,965 (92% of the world) All amounts in U.S. millions Note that there are only two Western-based countries in the Top 10. Japan comes out ahead of China, but the countries are so close that it is practically a draw. Considering its capacity expansion, however, China will be No. 1 from 2006 on. On the other hand, 35% of China's output was made by Taiwan Taiwan (tī`wän`), Portuguese Formosa, officially Republic of China, island nation (2005 est. pop. 22,894,000), 13,885 sq mi (35,961 sq km), in the Pacific Ocean, separated from the mainland of S China by the 100-mi-wide (161-km) Taiwan board makers, 30% by 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-based makers, 12% by 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 , 12% by U.S. makers, and 3% by European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. and other Asia-based PCB makers. So in China, board output by "Chinese Chinese, subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages), which is also sometimes grouped with the Tai, or Thai, languages in a Sinitic subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language stock. nationals" was only 8%, assuming the estimate of $10.06 billion is correct. If overseas production values Production values is a media term for "production cost." It refers to the professional look, or "polish," of a production. Factors that affect perceived production value may include video and audio quality, lighting, number of errors, and amount and quality of special effects. are considered, the picture of the top board-making "nationals" is slightly different: 1. Japan $13,900 2. Taiwan $9,030 3. US $6,210 4. Korea $4,650 5. Germany $1,220 Top 5 Total $65,010 (83% of the world) All amounts in U.S. millions At the rate of expansion by Taiwan-based makers in Taiwan and particularly in China, it may not be a surprise if Taiwan overtakes Japan as the No. 1 country some day in the future. Laminate Consumption As mentioned briefly before, Asia Pacific consumed con·sume v. con·sumed, con·sum·ing, con·sumes v.tr. 1. To take in as food; eat or drink up. See Synonyms at eat. 2. a. 87% of all laminates in 2005. China's consumption reached nearly 46%. The average layer count of an MLB MLB Major League Baseball MLB Minor League Baseball MLB Middle Linebacker (football) MLB Motor Life Boat MLB Matt Leblanc (actor) MLB Mother Love Bone (band) made in China is estimated to be 5.2 layers. The author finds that 95% of MLBs in China have 4, 6 or 8 layers, of which 85% are 4 and 6 layers. It is estimated that China consumed about 78 million square meters Noun 1. square meter - a centare is 1/100th of an are centare, square metre area unit, square measure - a system of units used to measure areas of thin core laminates, which turned into about 52 million square meters of multilayer boards. The production volume of FR4-based double-sided boards was 25 million square meters. Adding these and the estimated value of composite composite, alternate common name for Asteraceae or Compositae, the aster family. composite - aggregate laminate double-sided boards, the total PTH PTH abbr. parathyroid hormone Parathyroid hormone (PTH) A chemical substance produced by the parathyroid glands. This hormone is a major element in regulating calcium in the body. board production in China is estimated to have been about 81 million square meters. This figure is about 50% of all double-sided and MLSs (outer layer) made in the world. The World's Top 20 It is interesting to observe TO OBSERVE, civil law. To perform that which has been prescribed by some law or usage. Dig., 1, 3, 32. that the revenues of the world's Top 20 makers in 2000 and 2005 are similar within the same rankings. The total increased by about $600 million, or about 4%. As mentioned earlier, the seven U.S.-based makers on the list in 2000 held high-ranking positions, but in 2005, there are only three, all in lower rankings. This is in proportion to the decline of U.S. output as a country. The number of Japanese entries stayed the same: seven. The number of Taiwan makers in the Top 20 increased from four to five, while the number of 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 makers doubled from two to four. There is one entry from Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. and one from Austria Austria (ô`strēə), Ger. Österreich [eastern march], officially Republic of Austria, federal republic (2005 est. pop. 8,185,000), 32,374 sq mi (83,849 sq km), central Europe. in 2005. It is clear that U.S. dominance dominance In genetics, the greater influence by one of a pair of genes (alleles) that affect the same inherited trait. If an individual pea plant that has one allele for tallness and one for shortness is the same height as an individual that has two alleles for tallness, the is a thing of the past. The world has changed. China continues to be the world's growth leader. However, as mentioned before, the lion's share all, or nearly all; the best or largest part; - from Æsop's fable of the lion hunting in company with certain smaller beasts, and appropriating to himself all the prey. See also: Lion of growth in China comes from foreign investment, particularly from Taiwan's board makers. The capacity growth in China will be more than 25-30% in the next few years. One often wonders if there is enough market in the world to support such expansion. Despite such worries, PCB makers often expand as if there is no limit to the market. As certain large makers continue to grow in China, some makers will find it difficult to survive in the future. China's government has been hinting See hints. at making tax laws favorable fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. to foreign investors. It promises better electric power supplies in the future, but the industry is skeptical about its promise. It has been tightening environmental laws. Wages are rising; the cost of building is rising also due to the rising cost of labor and building materials Building materials used in the construction industry to create . These categories of materials and products are used by and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for . such as steel and cement cement, binding material used in construction and engineering, often called hydraulic cement, typically made by heating a mixture of limestone and clay until it almost fuses and then grinding it to a fine powder. . Everybody believes that the Chinese currency Currency has been used in China since the New Stone Age, in which Chinese also invented paper money in the 9th century. Today Renminbi (Chinese: 人民幣), literally People's currency, abbreviated to RMB, is the currency in mainland of the People's , the yuan Yuan (yüän), river, 540 mi (869 km) long, rising in S Guizhou prov. and flowing generally NE to Donting lake, Hunan prov., SE China. Navigation above Changde is limited by rapids to small craft. , will rise fairly sharply after the 2008 Beijing Beijing (bā-jĭng) or Peking (pē-kĭng, pā–), city (1994 est. urban pop. 6,093,300; 1994 est. total pop. 7,240,700), capital of the People's Republic of China. It is in central Hebei prov. Olympic O·lym·pic adj. Of or relating to the Olympic Games. Olympic Adjective of the Olympic Games Adj. 1. Olympic - of or relating to the Olympic Games; "Olympic winners" 2. Game. So there will be many negative elements for China's PCB industry to contend with in the future. But at the moment, the largest investment for the PCB industry is still found in China. Many equipment makers who exhibited at the Circuitex Suzhou Suzhou, Soochow (both: s  `jō`), or Wuxian (w show in April mentioned
that they were booked up with orders for China until the end of
October-November. Hence, despite anxiety, China will continue to grow
but at the cost of other countries, particularly in volume business.
The hot topic in China today is the effect of rising cost of essential materials. Will PCB makers be able to charge more in accordance Accordance is Bible Study Software for Macintosh developed by OakTree Software, Inc.[] As well as a standalone program, it is the base software packaged by Zondervan in their Bible Study suites for Macintosh. with the increasing cost of materials? Well, in this respect, China is not the only country wondering what to do. DR. HAYAO NAKAHARA is president of N.T. Information and consulting editor to PCD&M. He can be reached at 631-673-8571; nakanti@yahoo.com.
TABLE 1. World Top 20 PCB Makers in 2000 and 2005
RANK MAKER 2000 COUNTRY
1 Sanmina-SCI 1,530 US
2 Viasystems 1,250 US
3 CMK 1,112 Japan
4 Ibiden 1,083 Japan
5 Hitachi Group 973 Japan
6 Nippon Mektron 905 Japan
7 Compeq 802 Taiwan
8 Multek 780 US
9 Fujitsu 624 Japan
10 Tyco PCB 600 US
11 Shinko Electric 550 Japan
12 Daeduck 480 Korea
13 DDi 450 US
14 IBM 450 US
15 Panasonic 445 Japan
16 Nanya PCB 440 Taiwan
17 Photocircuits 403 US
18 Unimicron 400 Taiwan
19 Samsung E-M 400 Korea
20 Wus 390 Taiwan
Top 20 Total 14,067 USx7
RANK MAKER 2005 COUNTRY
1 Ibiden 1,410 Japan
2 Nippon Mektron 1,180 Japan
3 CMK 1,090 Japan
4 Unimicron 930 Taiwan
5 Shinko Electric 925 Japan
6 Samsung E-M 918 Korea
7 Nanya PCB 826 Taiwan
8 Young Poong 700 Korea
9 Daeduck Group 654 Korea
10 KB PCB Group 650 HKG
11 Hitachi Group 620 Japan
12 Compeq 606 Taiwan
13 Multek 600 US
14 Fujikura 545 Japan
15 LG Electronics 488 Korea
16 Wus 486 Taiwan
17 Tripod 483 Taiwan
18 Viasystems 470 US
19 Samina-SCI 460 US
20 AT&S 440 Austria
Top 20 Total 14,481 USx3
In U.S. millions. Source: N.T. Information Ltd.
TABLE 2. 2005 World PCB Output
PP & COMP FR-4 FR-4 HIGH-PERF HDI
1 & 2- DOUBLE- MULTI- DSB & MICRO-
SIDED SIDED LAYER MLB VIA
N. America 62.0 514.0 2,912.0 490.0 130.0
S. America 26.0 56.0 24.0 0.0 2.0
Total America 88.0 570.0 2,936.0 490.0 132.0
Germany 33.8 315.7 630.6 24.9 70.9
Italy 17.4 82.1 196.6 14.9 26.1
U.K. 6.4 77.3 179.2 12.9 18.7
Austria 29.0 62.3 57.0 2.1 170.4
France 24.9 67.6 131.1 10.7 16.8
Rest of Europe 147.2 211.5 347.2 14.9 91.9
Total Europe 258.7 816.5 1,541.7 80.4 394.8
Japan 1,060.0 580.0 2,261.0 320.0 1,365.0
China 890.0 1,420.0 5,235.0 100.0 1,160.0
Taiwan 125.0 318.0 2,322.0 210.0 968.0
S. Korea 201.0 365.0 918.0 44.0 1,062.0
Rest Asia Pacif 301.0 217.5 555.5 9.0 58.0
Total Asia Pac 2,577.0 2,900.5 11,291.5 683.0 4,613.0
Rest of World 80.1 137.0 126.5 16.0 20.0
Grand Total 3,003.8 4,424.0 15,895.7 1,269.4 5,159.8
IC FPC ML FPC TOTAL SHARE
SUBSTRATES REGULAR & RIGID- PCB PERCENT
FLEX
N. America 47.0 450.0 150.0 4,755.0 11.20
S. America 0.0 1.0 0.0 109.0 0.24
Total America 47.0 451.0 150.0 4,864.0 11.46
Germany 0.0 82.9 61.2 1,220.0 2.87
Italy 0.0 2.5 10.0 349.6 0.82
U.K. 0.0 19.9 22.4 336.8 0.79
Austria 0.0 0.6 2.0 323.4 0.76
France 0.0 19.2 27.9 298.2 0.70
Rest of Europe 0.0 17.9 45.6 876.2 2.06
Total Europe 0.0 143.0 169.1 3,404.2 8.02
Japan 2,960.0 1,454.0 450.0 10,450.0 24.62
China 85.0 1,020.0 150.0 10,060.0 23.70
Taiwan 1,130.0 860.0 47.0 5,980.0 14.09
S. Korea 870.0 481.0 592.0 4,533.0 10.68
Rest Asia Pacif 322.0 1,243.0 1.0 2,707.0 6.38
Total Asia Pac 5,367.0 5,058.0 1,240.0 33,730.0 79.47
Rest of World 15.0 7.0 27.0 428.6 1.01
Grand Total 5,429.0 5,659.0 1,586.1 42,426.8 100.00
GROWTH
(%) FROM
2004
N. America 0.0
S. America 0.0
Total America 0.0
Germany -6.1
Italy -13.0
U.K. -18.0
Austria -2.9
France -9.4
Rest of Europe -13.1
Total Europe -10.0
Japan 3.4
China 23.2
Taiwan 8.8
S. Korea 13.5
Rest Asia Pacif 0.6
Total Asia Pac 10.8
Rest of World
Grand Total
In U.S. millions.
Rest of Europe: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands,
Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary,
Poland
Rest of Asia Pacific: Australia/New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore,
Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia
Rest of World: Russia, Mideast (Turkey, Israel, etc), Africa (Tnisia,
S. Africa etc)
Source: N.T. Information Ltd. & Michael Gasch
TABLE 3. World PCB Production and Growth
2004 2005
REGION PRODUCTION PRODUCTION GROWTH
Total America 4,869 4,864 -0.1
N. America 4,759 4,755 -0.1
S. America 110 109 -0.9
Total Europe 3,725 3,404 -8.6
Germany 1,299 1,220 -6.1
Other Regions 430 429 -0.2
Total Asia Pacific 30,386 33,730 11.0
Japan 10,106 10,450 3.4
China 8,167 10,060 23.2
Taiwan 5,496 5,980 8.8
S. Korea 3,995 4,533 13.5
Thailand 853 976 14.4
Singapore 518 545 5.2
Other Asia 1,251 1,186 -5.2
World Total 39,410 42,427 7.7
China Share (%) 20.7 23.7
Japan Share (%) 25.6 24.6
2006 2007
REGION PRODUCTION GROWTH PRODUCTION GROWTH
Total America 4,977 2.3 5,118 2.8
N. America 4,883 2.7 5,020 2.8
S. America 94 -13.8 98 4.3
Total Europe 3,490 2.5 3,615 3.6
Germany 1,275 4.5 1,294 1.5
Other Regions 437 1.9 456 4.3
Total Asia Pacific 36,500 8.2 40,526 11.0
Japan 10,565 1.1 10,786 2.1
China 11,770 17.0 14,242 21.0
Taiwan 6,380 6.7 7,108 11.4
S. Korea 4,814 6.2 5,175 7.5
Thailand 1,008 3.3 1,130 12.1
Singapore 552 1.3 565 2.3
Other Asia 1,411 19.0 1,520 7.7
World Total 45,404 7.0 49,715 9.5
China Share (%) 25.9 28.6
Japan Share (%) 23.3 21.7
2008
REGION PRODUCTION GROWTH
Total America 5,230 2.2
N. America 5,130 2.2
S. America 100 2.0
Total Europe 3,766 4.2
Germany 1,313 1.5
Other Regions 482 5.7
Total Asia Pacific 44,046 8.7
Japan 10,894 1.0
China 16,734 17.5
Taiwan 7,590 6.8
S. Korea 5,511 6.5
Thailand 1,177 4.2
Singapore 570 1.0
Other Asia 1,570 3.3
World Total 53,524 7.7
China Share (%) 31.3
Japan Share (%) 20.4
N.T. Information Ltd., April 12, 2006. In U.S. millions calculated at
exchange rates below.
2005 for US$
Euro 0.844
Yen 110
RMB 8.11
NT$ 33
Won 1,024
Thai Baht 41
S$ 1.64
2004 for US$
Euro 0.75
Yen 110
RMB 8.2
NT$ 33
Won 1,050
Thai Baht 41
S$ 1.64
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