Small connectors, in fact, have a big name, because the connector that acts as a bridge is the technical path to achieve the world's interconnection. Only the connector companies in the upstream of the industrial chain have always been behind the scenes, rarely exposed, so they are not familiar to the end consumers. As the world's largest connector manufacturer, TE is known as the "invisible giant", and almost all of its electricity, signals, and data flow have its presence. Based on the whole business unit, new products come out every day, from sensor technology in the automotive industry to contactless applications in the industrial field, or terminals on mobile terminals, ultra-small antennas, and the business scope covers almost all countries. Consumption, transportation, energy, industry and other fields.

When the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 become the new market engine, component manufacturers are becoming more and more important. The core of these market hotspots is simply the word "connection", the connection between cars, the connection between household appliances, and the connection between security facilities, including in industrial applications, the connection between devices. Only the requirements for connectors are getting higher and higher.

Future connector requirements are nothing more than faster, smaller, smarter and more environmentally friendly. However, each segment has different focuses. For example, the automotive industry needs to ensure the reliability and high quality of connectors in harsh environments. For the consumer electronics industry, thin and light is the most important, followed by reliability. Sex, but the reliability of both is not a level. To a certain extent, the speed at which consumer electronics products are introduced determines two other special requirements: controlling costs and shortening the development cycle.

In addition to technical iterations, the regional distribution of connectors has also changed to varying degrees with market share. Over the years, global connector production capacity has been continuously shifting to Asia, especially China. Some analysts believe that Asia has become the most promising place in the connector market, and China is expected to become the fastest growing and largest capacity market in the world.

In the past, most connector suppliers have used more of China's low production costs, and now they are more about thinking about how to serve this emerging market. The answer given by TE is to transform the original "dependent on China manufacturing" model "to create wisdom for China".