While aiming at key basic 5G components, Foxconn Group spent 1 billion US dollars (about 29.5 billion NTD) to build a production line for 5G millimeter wave connectors in Kunshan, China, which has entered the stage of equipment debugging at this moment in time. It is estimated that the annual value of production is expected to exceed 40 billion NTD after it is successfully put into operation and the production capacity is realized.
According to some sources, Foxconn (Kunshan) Computer Connector Company is mainly engaged in R&D and sales of 5G millimeter wave connectors for cellphones. Foxconn Group has accelerated its expansion layout in key basic 5G component territory through a series of successive capital increments.
　　By analyzing the industry participants, it becomes apparent that the scale of business opportunities related to 5G is worth more than one trillion US dollars. The development duration is as long as ten years. The first wave of business opportunities is base stations, network server equipment, cellphones and related components, etc.; the second wave will involve optical fiber networks; the third wave is then micro base stations; the fourth wave will be new applications of 5G, such as smart factories, car networking, smart cities, private networks for enterprises, etc.
Industry participants believe that although connectors are not the core function of 5G equipment, it is nonetheless a key basic component, which minimizes signal loss in transmission.
　　Chief Global Operations Officer Lu Po Ching of Foxconn Interconnect Technology, subordinate to Foxconn Group, pointed out a few days ago that Kunshan Foxconn has been stabilizing production and increasing economic performance with all might regardless of the complex and changeable economic environment and increasingly fierce technological competition situation and at the same time the company is following the development tendency of future industrial upgrades, keeping a close watch on the development tendency of 5G and other new infrastructures. By integrating related industry chains then it becomes possible to create a production base for the 5G industry and activate new functions of high-quality development.
　　Industry participants were optimistic that on account of cloud, virtualization and other features of 5G access network technology, which facilitate opening-up and white-branding of base station interface, it will no longer be a closed traditional system. Telecommunications operators are expected to join hands with third-party equipment suppliers to promote the opening-up of interfaces jointly and seize the market. It will be the best chance for Taiwan participants to enter the 5G market. (New source: Economic Daily)