The disparity in market share between FPC circuit boards and PCB circuit boards
FPC circuit board, as an indispensable part of the printed circuit board (PCB) industry, still has a significant gap in market share compared to the vast traditional PCB market. Currently, the global market share of FPC circuit board accounts for approximately 15%-20% of the entire PCB market, while traditional rigid PCBs hold an absolute dominant position of over 70%, with the remaining share being divided among technologies such as Rigid-Flex boards.
This gap mainly stems from the different physical properties and application costs of the two. FPC, with its advantages of being lightweight, flexible, and highly integrated, mainly focuses on areas with extremely high requirements for space and flexibility: The first is consumer electronics, such as foldable screens, camera modules, connection lines, and smartwatches for smartphones; secondly, automotive electronics, applied to large central control screens, sensors, and battery management systems; in addition, in wearable monitoring instruments for medical equipment and precise transmission parts in industrial robots, FPC also plays a key role.
In contrast, traditional rigid PCBs, due to their higher mechanical strength, lower manufacturing maturity and cost, remain the cornerstone of mainstream electronic products such as computers, data center servers, communication infrastructure, industrial control power supplies and household appliances to this day. Although the penetration rate of FPC in the high-end innovation field continues to increase, rigid PCBs, with their wide applicability and economy, will maintain their basic market position in the foreseeable future. In the future, as the deep development of the Internet of Things, wearable devices and intelligentization of automobiles progresses, the market share of FPC is expected to grow faster, gradually narrowing the overall gap with rigid PCBs.
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