Passive Components

Passive Components Global Market Outlook:

Market Overview

Passive Components : $34.8 billion (2022E), expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.5 percent CAGR from 2021 to 2025.

Global Market Outlook

Global Maturity: High

Global Capacity: Tight Supply (2021–2025)

Regional Outlook : Passive Components

• The global passive components market reached $34.8 billion and is expected to grow by 6.5 percent from 2021 to 2025

• The increase in hybrid electric vehicles, such as EV Cars, is rapidly reducing the environmental burden and increasing the number of ECUs (electronic control units), thereby leading to stronger demand for passive components, whose miniaturization and further performance improvements have been rising

• Japan and South Korea are the two major economies in the APAC that drive the passives market. The transportation sector is one of the critical infrastructures that supported the Japanese economy and evolved, along with other industries' growth. Japan is striving towards adopting electric vehicle technology on a mass scale. Toyota, who is one of the largest car manufacturers, has partnered with another player, Mazda, to develop electric vehicle technologies for electric cars, including mini-vehicles, SUVs, passenger cars, and light trucks

Global Market Overview: Electronic Components

• The passive components industry has been witnessing a significant growth in 2022 from 5G, industrial and automotive applications, however, due to 3rd wave lockdowns in the APAC, they had difficulty in procuring raw materials from various regions, which has started easing in late Q2 2022

• The industry is expected to remain elevated, with increasing fashion for automotive and industrial demand. The key industries, like automotive, smartphones, and 5G communication, are expected to witness continuous demand throughout 2022. However, the passive components are witnessing demand from data center, due to increasing use of internet, as people started using more online platforms, like live stream, online entertainment apps and business applications

Porter’s Five Forces Analysis on Passive Components

Supplier Power

Supplier Size

• Component providers have medium to low power, based on the industry they cater to

• For fragmented market in the consumer and devices segment, component suppliers have lower power

• For consolidated, industrial/automotive segments, component suppliers have medium power

Competition

• The market is surrounded by several suppliers, still it is dominated by a small number of key players. This results in gaining supplier power.

Barriers to New Entrants

Infrastructure

• The foremost barrier for a new entrant is resources and the capital cost required to start a plant. It is in addition to labor, transportation, and warehousing

Brand Differentiation

• Though there is a potential for a new entrant to compete head-to-head with key players, brand differentiation strengthens the new entrant only to a limited extent, especially for semi-conductors

Switching Cost

• Customers find it challenging to switch from one supplier to a new entrant by changing the entire design

Intensity of Rivalry

Product Differentiation and Contractual Terms

• Intense competition in the industry, with few differentiated service offerings are the main factors for high industry rivalry

• Flexible contractual terms are being used to attract customers

• The pressure remains with all the tier-2 players in the industry

• Exit barriers for big players are also high, due to high cost of entry into the market

Threat of Substitutes

Switching Cost

• For semi-conductors, high switching cost is involved that makes it difficult for substitutes to draw customers away from key players

• For passives and interconnects, the switching cost is low, as there could be very similar passive component or interconnect that can substitute the existing product

Performance to Price Ratio

• The switching cost differs for different electronic components, the low performance to price ratio of substitutes exerts a weak force in the industry environment

Buyer Power

Total Spend

• With the ever-increasing buyer spend on electronic components, the buyer’s ability to bargain and obtain value-added services is high

Contracts

• For semi-conductors, supplier alliances are formed in a long-term basis, so buyer’s power is generally high during long-term over short-term

• There is a mild backward integration risk, due to large entry barriers. For passives & interconnects, they generally focus on procurement from distributors rather than suppliers for commoditized products