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Asia Pacific Computer Market For Connectors
Research Report C-830-02
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Published September 2002

This seven chapter report from Bishop & Associates provides a comprehensive analysis of connector usage in the Asia Pacific computer market.

A detailed analysis of connector consumption for each of the major categories of equipment is provided. The value and growth rate of equipment production for each sector is forecast for the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2007. In addition, values and growth rates of connectors are identified for each category of equipment for the years 1999 through 2007. Connector values are also provided for leading Asia Pacific countries. This report furnishes a detailed and authoritative analysis of computer connector consumption in the world’s fastest growing region.

The $500 billion computer & peripheral hardware industry is global, with large standard product and subsystem segments becoming more and more entrenched in the Asia-Pacific region, notably Taiwan and mainland China.

This movement is being fueled by a growing world-class manufacturing infrastructure, investments in technology and productivity, and (in China) an inexhaustible supply of high-quality, low-cost labor. Several broad aspects of this globalization to the Asia Pacific region are important to this report:

Regional end-use market growth, encouraging more local manufacturing

Manufacturing for export to world markets

OEM outsourcing

Shifting component demand & infrastructure

Rapid emergence of China as a global leader in computer and telecom manufacturing

Uncertainties surrounding the computer industry and its prolonged slump, even in the server and storage sectors

Local end-use markets are growing as populations become educated and businesses expand and relocate to the region. Computer products are increasingly demanded by these huge populations as their disposable incomes increase and they move from rural subsistence to city/manufacturing jobs. Demand for "entry-level" devices, including mobile and wireless, has fueled handhelds and laptops as well as mobile phones. Japan is still the largest, most mature end-use market, Singapore and Hong Kong have a large base in electronics. Taiwan, and South Korea have seen major growth. However, mainland China has the potential to dwarf all the former, with a computer and telecom market second only to the U.S.

Familiar names such as HP and Compaq are significant in the region, but regional powerhouses such as Sony, Toshiba and Acer are also strong, as are clone manufacturers. OEMs such as Compal, Legend, Founder or Great Wall may well become the local equivalents of IBM. This growing market will encourage the emergence of regional CEMs, in partnership with current global leaders, and in the future, perhaps independent of them.

Local Manufacturing fits the economic strategy and manufacturing infrastructure trends of the region, including a large and growing contingent of component and semiconductor industry suppliers. This broad and deep manufacturing expertise is an outgrowth of decades-long dominance in consumer electronics by Japan, and the resulting expansion of electronic assembly know how to other countries in the region. First Japan, then Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and South Korea, and now China have become regional centers of electronics manufacturing expertise. Australia and New Zealand are sophisticated end-use markets but not a major factor in manufacturing due to labor costs.

Market Scope

Following is a global estimate of the value of computer and computer-related hardware from 1999-2006.