Taiwan’s Connector Industry Facing Challenge and Its Transformation and Upgrading Strategy

In 2011, there are about 350 connector manufacturers and of which 12,780 employees in Taiwan. The average gross margin and R&D density: the average gross margin is about 15%~20%, better than the low gross margin 3%~4% of downstream NB ODM factories; R&D accounted for approximately 4.5% of turnover is a bit low.Mastering degree of raw materials: the raw materials are mainly divided into plastics, copper alloy and plating materials; presently, the upstream materials are held by Japanese manufactures as Sumitomo....