Top Electronic Companies in USA and Global Electronic Component Suppliers
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This is a comprehensive list of the top electronics companies and electronic component suppliers in the USA and globally. Electronics is a very broad category covering everything from consumer level goods, to industrial and laboratory devices, to military equipment, to the individual components used to produce each of those devices. Component electronics encompass a range of products as well, including LCD screens, battery chargers, electrical control systems, electrical components for the automotive industry, computer hard drives, bluetooth transmitters, and more. Below we have compiled lists of the top electronics manufacturers in the United States and worldwide to aid you in your supplier search.
At a glance:
Types of Electronics Manufacturers
Electronics devices are typically built by a vertical collection of companies in the supply chain. For example, basic components such as capacitors and resistors are manufactured by one type of company. These components are then purchased and can be used to produce a higher-level electronic assembly, such as a computer hard drive, built by another company. The hard drive is then purchased and used by yet another company to build products such as laptops. It is not unusual for an electronic device to include components from dozens of companies and supply chains that are located around the world.
The 10
Top Electronics Manufacturing Companies
in the U.S.
The top electronics companies in the U.S. are mostly diverse conglomerates with a large variety of offerings ranging from silicon chips, wiring, and cables, to appliances, military equipment, and audio technology. Given this diversity, the best way to rank them is by market capitalization.
In Table 1, below, we’ve outlined key electronics manufacturers in the U.S.A. sorted by market cap.
Table 1 – Top 10
Electronics Companies in USA
*Market capitalization values are as of July 17, 2018, and represent billions of U.S. dollars
Electronic Manufacturing Companies in USA –
Summaries and Info
Amphenol Corporation is a major producer of electronic and fiber optic connectors, cable, and interconnect systems. With more than 60 locations around the world, the company operates in diverse electronics markets such as military, aerospace, industrial, automotive, mobile phone, information technology, broadband, wireless infrastructure, medical, and audio.
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. creates audio, visual, and voice technologies for cinemas, home theaters, PCs, mobile devices, and games. Dolby licenses its audio noise reduction and audio encoding/compression technologies to consumer electronics manufacturers.
Hubbell Incorporated designs, manufactures, and sells electrical and electronic products for non-residential and residential construction, industrial, and utility applications. It has manufacturing facilities located around the world, including in the U.S., Europe, South America, and China.
Acuity Brands, Inc. is a leader in LED lighting, controls, and daylighting. Product offerings include indoor and outdoor fixtures for commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. Target uses include electrical distributors, retail home improvement centers, electric utilities, contractors, utility distributors, municipalities, national accounts, catalogs, and lighting showrooms.
AVX Corporation is a leading international manufacturer and supplier of an extensive portfolio of electronic components, including capacitors, inductors, filters, resistors, couplers, diodes, and circuit protection devices, as well as a broad range of innovative sensor, control, interconnect and antenna solutions. AVX has 29 research, design, manufacturing, and customer support facilities located in 16 countries.
Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. develops power and control technologies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, data storage products, flat panel displays, and architectural glass. It also provides power solutions for complex semiconductor and thin film plasma processes, high and low voltage applications, and temperature-critical environments.
Rogers Corporation produces advanced materials for use in printed circuit boards, power electronics, and impact protection. Products include power electronics for high-voltage rail traction, hybrid-electric vehicles, and wind and solar power conversion; solutions for wireless infrastructure, power amplifiers, radar systems, and high speed digital; and elastomeric material solutions for sealing and energy management in smartphones, aircraft and rail interiors, automobiles, and apparel.
Sanmina Corporation, founded in 1980, provides end-to-end design, manufacturing, and logistics solutions to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) primarily in the communications network, defense and aerospace, computing and storage, medical, industrial and semiconductor, multimedia, automotive, and clean technology sectors. It has approximately 45,000 employees worldwide with global operations in 25 countries on six continents.
Vicor Corporation designs and manufactures high efficiency power supply systems, including custom solutions, as well as AC-DC / DC-DC converters for modern power requirements.
KEMET Corporation produces a variety of capacitors and electronic components such as AC line filters, EMI cores and filters, ferrite products, flex suppressors, relays, metal composite inductors, and transformers/magnetics.
4 Top Electronics Companies – Global
Outside of low-cost manufacturing, the U.S. overwhelmingly dominates in the electronics industry. However, several international firms compete very effectively for market share. The largest electronics company worldwide, TE Connectivity, is based in Switzerland. TE has a higher market capitalization than the largest U.S. firm, Amphenol Corporation, by roughly five billion dollars. The top 4 global electronics manufacturers are summarized in Table 2 below, ranked in descending order by market capitalization.
Table 2: Top 4 Global
Electronic Components Manufacturers
Rank
Ticker
Company Name
Country
Market Cap (Billions in U.S. Dollars)*
1
TEL
TE Connectivity Ltd.
Switzerland
$32.41
2
LPL
LG Display Co., Ltd.
South Korea
$6.47
3
NVT
nVent Electric
United Kingdom
$4.25
4
SIMO
Silicon Motion Technology Corporation
Taiwan
$1.88
*Market capitalization values are as of July 17, 2018 and were converted to U.S. dollars using foreign exchange rates as of July 17, 2018
Global Top Electronics Companies –
Summaries and Info
TE Connectivity Ltd., is the largest of all electronics companies. It designs and manufactures connectivity and sensor products for harsh environments in a variety of industries such as automotive, energy, industrial equipment, defense, data communication systems, aerospace, medical, oil and gas, consumer electronics, and subsea communications. TE Connectivity has a global workforce of 78,000, including approximately 7,000 engineers. The company serves customers in 150 countries.
LG Display Co., Ltd., headquartered in South Korea, is a top manufacturer and supplier of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, OLEDs, and flexible displays. LG currently operates nine fabrication facilities and seven back-end assembly facilities in Korea, Poland, China, and Mexico.
nVent Electric, with a workforce of over 9000 employees, designs, manufactures, markets, installs, and services electrical connection and protection products and solutions.
Silicon Motion Technology Corporation develops NAND flash controller integrated circuits for solid-state storage devices and specialty RF ICs for mobile devices. SMTC claims it has supplied more NAND flash controllers than any other company – over five billion units from 2006 through 2016. Products include SSDs, memory cards, eMMCs, and USB flash drives.
Electronic Component Suppliers –
Summary
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