Semiconductor and Printed Circuit Board Technologies for Consumer Electronics Applications
Thinking, talking and remembering are arguably the most basic of human traits. Not surprisingly then computers and peripherals, communications, telecommunication and other portable electronics are the most basic applications within the electronics industry. The industries most representative products are mobile phones and PDA's, navigation systems, Bluetooth, hard disk drives, wireless LAN, PCs and Notebooks PCs.
2/3 of the world electronics industry is based on networked communications, a fact which makes consumer electronics with all its communications and computing the most demanded segment within the global electronics industry.
The market size is estimated to be $802 billion in 2008 and growing at a projected average annual rate of 5.7% through until 2011 ($951Bn). The major drivers of this segment are the mobile phone shipments, powerful mobile phone devices and stronger focus on user interfaces such as integrated cameras or TV stream functions.
As market leader in HDI and IC Substrate technology Atotech leads the way in developing new ideas for tomorrow's requirements and needs.
To operate at the leading edge of technology, Atotech's worldwide OEM teams stay in constant and close contact with the market leaders on the PCB, EMS and OEM level for consumer electronics to fulfill their present and future needs and align Atotech's research and development program accordingly. Thereby, Atotech's main objective is to focus on providing global, cost-effective processes and systems solutions to key customers such as those for example in the automotive industry.
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