Bishop and Associates has just released a new report providing a complete analysis of The World Rectangular I/O Connector Market. This new report furnishes detailed statistics for over 85 rectangular product lines by 2004/2005 total sales. Sales by end-use equipment markets are also provided, as well as five-year projections to the year 2010. Expanded coverage of fifteen major product categories is supplied and profiles of leading manufacturers are exhibited. This report provides all the key data needed to analyze the World Rectangular I/O Connector Market.

World demand for rectangular I/O connectors reached $5,984 million in 2005, up +6.5% from 2004’s total of $5,619 million.  Rectangular I/O connectors represented 16.9% of the 2005 $35.5 billion connector market.

The rectangular I/O market will increase to $10.077 million in 2010, a five-year CAGR of 11.0%.  In 2010, the rectangular market will represent 17.3% of world connector demand.

The following table shows the performance of all connector types, including rectangular, and our five-year forecast:

Five-Year Forecast – All Connector Products

At 11.0%, the rectangular I/O market is projected to achieve the highest five-year CAGR.  This is because this product category is widely used in the largest and fastest growing market sectors such as computer/peripherals, industrial and telecom/datacom.

The computer/peripheral sector is a large consumer of rectangular I/O connectors, using $2.6 billion in 2005, or 43.9% of total demand for these products.  The industrial and data/telecom sectors also consume a large quantity of rectangular I/O connectors.  The following table provides demand by market sector:

Rectangular Connectors By Sector

Rectangular I/O connectors can be summarized into thirteen major types. The majority of rectangular I/O connectors are classified interconnect levels 5 and 6.  The following table identifies the thirteen types and the most common interconnect level for each.

Rectangular Interconnect Levels