Emerging applications bring unlimited business opportunities to PCBs

On February 4, 2017, the National Development and Reform Commission announced the “Guidance Catalogue for Key Products and Services for Strategic Emerging Industries” (2016 edition), including a new generation of information infrastructure industry, high-end equipment manufacturing, new materials industry, bio-industry, and new energy. Industry, energy conservation and environmental protection industry, digital creative industry, new energy automobile industry, 8 industries in 5 fields, involving nearly 4,000 sub-products and services. Compared with the version three years ago, the number of products and services has increased by nearly 900. Among them, artificial intelligence and digital creative industry entered the list of guidance for the first time. The sub-category of new energy vehicles has also expanded from the original "pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles" to "new energy vehicle products", 'charging, power exchange and hydrogenation facilities', 'production test equipment 'Three items.

Now, the car is moving towards intelligent development, and the automotive industry is expected to relay smart phones into new intelligent terminals. With the increasing market share of electric vehicles, intelligent + new energy, the number of electronic components used in automobiles has increased significantly, automotive electronics. It will be an important market for PCBs. However, the automotive industry has high requirements for product safety and reliability. Therefore, the printed circuit board industry should make technical and production reserves before smart cars and new energy vehicles are fully blown out.

According to the statistics report released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau in May, the overall operation of China's electronic information manufacturing industry continued its steady development trend since the second half of last year. Among them, the production of the communications equipment industry maintained a double-digit growth. In the first quarter, the output of smartphones alone reached 358.66 million units, an increase of 11.4%; the growth rate of production in the computer industry continued to rise, with 39.03 million notebook computers, an increase of 10%. These areas are usually the demand for PCBs in the consumer electronics market. Performance, smart phones, wearables, portable medical equipment, health equipment, etc., the market capacity is large, product updates are fast, products are getting lighter, thinner and smaller. The PCB industry has long been prepared for technology and resources in meeting these needs.

Artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing are strategic emerging industries supported by the state. From the perspective of the technical and technological requirements of products, they belong to the high-end manufacturing industry and have extremely high requirements for PCB manufacturing equipment and talent teams. The transformation and upgrading of the PCB industry provides a good opportunity.

Now, in cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, new energy vehicles, smart cars, communications, consumer electronics, health care, wearable devices and many other fields, China has a huge market, and a large number of new consumer demand has been born. To the PCB industry, as an indispensable part of the electronic system, the rapid development of these industries has also brought unlimited business opportunities to the PCB industry. This also proves from another aspect why China's PCB production can occupy half of the world and become the largest. PCB supply base.