The electronics industry has only easily come out of the past few years of memory price increases, flash memory price increases, capacitor price increases and other days, and now may face another round of price increases, PCB laminate leader Kingboard announced a price increase, the reason with Apple iPhone sales exceeded expectations.

 

 

Kingboard said, in view of the main raw materials for copper clad board, copper, resin and acetone prices continue to rise, resulting in the cost of copper clad board, so our company will be July 1 onwards, the sales price of all materials to increase, FR-4 (40 * 48) price increase + 10 yuan / sheet; CEM-1/22F (40 * 48) price increase + 5 yuan / sheet; VO/HB (1030 * 1230) price increase + 5 yuan / sheet; VO/HB (1030 * 1230) price increase + 5 yuan / sheet. 1230) mark-up +5 RMB/sheet; PP (150m) mark-up +100 RMB/roll.

 

 

PCB is an important material for electronic products, PCB boards are used in almost all products, Apple's iPhone in recent years will also use advanced FPC flexible PCB version, the requirements are very high, so the price is also much higher than the previous PCB.

 

 

This wave of PCB price increases, although Kingboard said the price of raw materials, in fact, also with the Apple iPhone supply chain demand rise, since late May iPhone 11 and iPhone SE2 actively replenished orders, Apple products during the 618 also participated in the promotion, after the discount sales are also good.

 

 

Considering the importance of PCBs, Kingboard is the first to open up, it is estimated that other companies will follow, for fear of causing a chain reaction, so that electronic products back to the cycle of price increases.