Excluding Japan , China now dominates the Asian electronics industry accounting for around 49% of Asian electronics production in 2006, up from 30% only five years earlier. China is increasingly being seen as the preferred location for overseas companies, while local manufacturers ramp up production to meet demand form the surging domestic market. Nevertheless, other Asian countries do have significant electronics industries with South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore all playing an important role within the global market.

The Asia Pacific electronics industry has been built primarily on foreign investment and many countries are finding it increasingly difficult to compete with China, in particular, for low-cost assembly. As a result governments in countries such as Malaysia and Singapore are looking to focus on higher value products.

Similar to the US and countries in Western Europe, Japan is being impacted by the migration of production to low-cost locations. By the end of 2006, electronics output had fallen by 23.5% from the peak in 2000 and the country’s share of global electronics output to 12.7% down from 26% in 1995. Despite the underlying trends, production stabilised in 2006 with production rising by 4.0% and by a more modest 0.6% in 2007. In 2008, production is forecast to decline by 0.5% as the slowdown in the semiconductor market and uncertainties in the global economy impacts demand.

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