EMS Market to See 4.1% CAGR by 2019-2024

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The worldwide market for electronics manufacturing services (EMS) is expected to grow at a CAGR of roughly 4.1% over the next five years, will reach $55000 million in 2024, from $43200 million in 2019, according to a new research study.

In 2017, thanks to a surge in shipments of mobile phone vendors such as Apple, Huawei, and Xiaomi, the EMS market rose by 5.17%. In 2017, the growth in mobile phone offset the drop in notebook computer market. It is predicted that the mobile phone will still have strong growth potential, but with the growth rate dwarfed by that in 2018. The 4G construction of Radio Access Networks reached the peak after 2015. It is projected that the RAN market will be on the decline in 2018-2023. Moreover, the data size of mobile Internet surged, data center or cloud computing services market grew robustly.

IT infrastructure, with data center or cloud computing services as the core, will constitute the biggest driving force. Server EMS is basically monopolized by the Taiwanese vendors, with a global market share of over 90%. Taiwan has a complete industrial chain of server, which is viewed as an extension of the computer. As the Taiwanese vendors have stronger and stronger technical ability, the future equipment cabinet solution of server+routing+storage+switching will gain more market space.

However, the European and US EMS vendors are dedicated to improving profitability by reducing the revenue proportion of telecom and communication infrastructure, and intensifying the expansion to industrial, medical, and automotive sectors. Meanwhile, they have also strengthened the weakness in components, and ventured into the upstream sector of industrial chains. But compared with the Taiwanese vendors, the European and US EMS peers lagged far behind in the field of components.