PCB manufacturer Unitech Printed Circuit Board will spend NT$1.5 billion (US$49.62 million) to ramp up its production capacity of any-layer HDI pcb boards and rigid-flex pcb boards in 2014, according to industry sources.
Unitech is expected to see sales of rigid-flex pcb boards increase over 50% in the year as more smartphone vendors are using rigid-flex pcb boards for their high-end models, said the sources.
Overall, sales of flex-rigid pcb boards will account for 30% of Unitech's total revenues in 2014 compared to less than 20% a year earlier, added the sources.
The production value of flex-rigid pcb boards from Taiwan's PCB makers in Taiwan and China currently accounts for just 1% of makers' total PCB production, according to Taiwan's IEK (Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center).
