The demand for smart phones continues to be sluggish, manufacturing multi -layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) Global electronic component companies seek breakthroughs by expanding the MLCC business of the automotive MLCC business. South Korea's leading MLCC companySamsung motorThe investment focus is on the MLCC of the car, and the market has been led by Japanese companies.

Recently, Japan, which occupies the largest MLCC market share in the worldVillageRecently, it is announced that it is planned to invest 47 billion yen (about 314 million US dollars) to expand the MLCC production facility of the Izumo Factory in Shiman Prefecture, Japan. The facility is scheduled to begin operations in March 2026.

The industry speculated that as smartphones' sales increased, the expansion aims to increase production capacity for electric vehicle (EV) markets and the Internet of Things (IoT).

MLCC has been widely used in IT devices such as smartphones and personal computers (PC) and household appliances.Recently, the emergence of electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles highlights the new field of the MLCC market as an electronic component industry.The size of the car MLCC market is expected to increase from US $ 2.9 billion in 2023 to $ 4 billion in 2026.

Following Murata, Japan TDK,SunThe leading companies in the world and other global MLCCs have also taken MLCC as the key competition field and actively invest.The Sun Lao Power built a MLCC production base in Changzhou, Jiangsu in July 2023, and began to mass production, focusing on the MLCC of the automotive MLCC for the Chinese electric vehicle market.

Samsung Electric announced at the shareholders' meeting in March last year that it was transformed into a automobile parts company. With the single fighting of Japanese companies, it stepped up its share in the MLCC market in the automotive MLCC.

According to market research companiesTrendForceData, since the production of automotive MLCC in 2016, the market share of Samsung Electric has grown rapidly from 4%in 2022 to 13%in 2023.During the same period, the market share of leading companies such as Murata Production (from 44%to 41%), TDK (from 20%to 16%), and solar induction (from 18%to 13%) have declined.

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