The increasing importance of the rigid flex PCB in automotive electronics can be said to be beyond the original imagination of PCB factory. Because at the beginning did not think of the technology used in the mobile phone lens module, there is an opportunity to extend to the vehicle ADAS lens module, and further attract automotive components manufacturers to introduce the rigid flex PCB board into the module products such as Guangda, and become an entry brick into the high-end vehicle market.
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At present, the automotive PCB field is mostly competed by small and medium-sized enterprises. The main reason is that the market scale is not large and it is not cost-effective for the leading manufacturers, so the market is in the stage of fierce competition among various manufacturers. Japan, which has always attached great importance to automotive electronics, has already laid out in advance and actively expanded to China, Europe and the United States. Coupled with the policy of Chinese manufacturers to develop electric vehicles, it is likely to maintain a perfectly competitive market pattern in the future.
Both cost advantages and design flexibility in the future development of large space
Based on the technical characteristics of FBS, manufacturers believe that FBS are just at the middle point of design flexibility and cost advantage, so it has become the design preference of many terminal brands. For example, in South Korea, in addition to the phone battery and lens, the display and a number of mobile phone modules are equipped with a rigid flex PCB board. According to the related industry, half of the internal and external modules of Samsung Electronics’ recent flagship Note 20 are equipped with a rigid flex PCB board, which is quite high in usage.
For example, IPHONE has been actively moving away from the rigid flex PCB board in its iPhone and AirPods series. However, this is the design preference of each brand, and it is not the final conclusion for the future development of the rigid flex PCB board.
Especially in the Internet age, the diversification of different types of PCB board demand means on the design scheme of diversity, under the trend of lightweight, terminal brand to effectively enlarge product scale, demand for cost control also follow to improve, the dual requirements of the border is not just a single basis point, but into a whole piece of fertile land of development prospects. In the future, when image-sensing functions are used in all kinds of smart products, the market for the required lens modules will be large, and the opportunity for a combination of hardware and software will be great, the industry said.