Component
Printed circuit board
Copper-clad FR-4 board: woven glass cloth laminated with epoxy, then copper foil. Used in phones, washers, and controllers.
Criticality
High
Unit cost
$40
Quality
70 / 100
US saturation
10.0
Made in US
8,000,000 square meters
Current demand
80,000,000 square meters
US exports
640,000 square meters
Opportunity score
76.0
Domestic vs international supply
Planned US investment, next 5 years
$1.6B
Expected extra output: 10,000,000 square meters per year
Used by
- Appliance controls
- Battery management system
- CMOS camera module
- CNC mill
- CNC router
- Copier
- Display controls
- E-bike controller
- Electronic-trip breaker
- Elevator controller
- Embroidery machine
- EV wall charger
- FDM 3D printer
- Flight controller
- HVAC controls
- Infrared remote
- Inkjet printer
- Label printer
- Lamp driver
- Laptop main board
- Laser cutter
- Laser printer
- LED imaging bar
- Main board
- Opener remote
- POS terminal
- Power inverter
- Power supply
- Quadruped
- Robot vacuum
- Smoke alarm
- Solid-state RF source
- Trackpad
- Vehicle ECU
- Video I/O
- Washer controller
- Weld inverter
- Wi-Fi router
- Wireless earbuds
Product paths
- Air fryer map
- Blender map
- CNC mill map
- CNC router map
- Ceiling fan map
- Clothes dryer map
- Clothes iron map
- Coffee maker map
- Commercial dryer map
- Commercial refrigerator map
- Commercial washer map
- Cooker hob map
- Copier map
- Dehumidifier map
- Desktop monitor map
- Dishwasher map
- E-bike map
- EV wall charger map
- Electric kettle map
- Elevator map
- Embroidery machine map
- Espresso machine map
- FDM 3D printer map
- Forklift map
- Fridge map
- Garage door opener map
- Gas furnace map
- Generator map
- Geyser map
- HVAC rooftop unit map
- Hair dryer map
- Heat pump map
- Home battery map
- Ice machine map
- Industrial pump map
- Industrial sewing machine map
- Inkjet printer map
- LED lamp map
- Label printer map
- Laptop map
- Laser cutter map
- Laser printer map
- Lawn mower map
- Load center map
- MIG welder map
- Microwave map
- Oven map
- POS terminal map
- Passenger car map
- Plasma cutter map
- Pool pump map
- Quadcopter drone map
- Quadruped map
- Range hood map
- Robot vacuum map
- Room air conditioner map
- Serger map
- Sewing machine map
- Smartphone map
- Smoke alarm map
- TIG welder map
- Tablet map
- Television map
- Toaster map
- Vacuum cleaner map
- Washing machine map
- Wi-Fi router map
- Wireless earbuds map