As early as April last year, the country giant announced the price increase of MLCC and chip resistor products above 0603 size, the MLCC amplitude adjustment of about 8-10%, chip resistance increase of about 5%; the second wave of increase again by the end of June, with an average increase of 15 -30%. In September, the MLCC also increased the average amount of MLCCs by about 15-30%. From December 1, the price of NPO MLCC, which is related to communication and power supply usage, was raised and pulled Long delivery, of which the price increase will be 20-30% or even higher, as delivery from 1-3 months pulled up to 6 months.
Resistance part, it is Qilu New Chi's first announcing the switch to 0402, 0603, 0805, 1206 and other products offer 15-20%, the giant also follow up for large-size thick film resistors, the general resistance of the thick film Up 15-20%.
Inductance part, Kellett recently raised the channel price.
The key to pushing up the passive components' quotation continued to rise is mainly supply and demand, partly because the Japanese manufacturers shift production capacity to niche products. By comparison, the main products of passive component factories in Taiwan and the mainland are generally bulk Goods, have also received a transfer order.
As for the demand part, the main part is the smart phone, because the move towards slim and light multi-tasking makes the size of the passive components smaller and smaller, and the smaller products consume more capacity due to the difficulty of production.
For now, the price rise effect on the profits and inductive plant profit contribution is greater, the relevant supplier is expected to boom this year is not a dark cloud.
Insiders said that at present, the price of SMD resistors has begun to rise towards the MLCC, market-driven mainly by the automotive and industrial markets caused by the same time, some resistance manufacturers can not afford the raw materials and labor costs rise, have been raised Ex-factory price, which also caused the prices of all kinds of agents / traders on the market to rise. Factories are full but the market is in short supply. However, this does not mean that the growth of the demand of end customers is still not possible at this moment.