Connector got the United States for military purposes in 1939 during the Second World War, the U.S. military aircraft maintenance in order to shorten the time to change the past, "welding" instead of "connector" assembly, maintenance personnel through connector, against the replacement of damaged modules strains, connectors products made due to the United States , early connector from the US-dominated industries, but also Japanese technology to enter the market, while Taiwan Foxconn low price strategy to grow rapidly.

      The global connector industry from 2001 to 2003 through the first half of the real estate sector, the second half of 2003 as the global economic recovery to resume double-digit growth, although 2004 has also shown growth of 15.7%, but the second half of 2004 are already showing slow growth, mainly for the connector has been generally applied to each electronic products, gradually maturing industry.

      In 2006 in some emerging applications market continued to grow, and automobiles, computers and peripherals good performance there, in 2006 than in 2005 grew by 10%, a total output value of 42.5 billion US dollars.

       In addition, the connector has been generally applied to each electronic products, gradually maturing industry, although some emerging applications continues to grow, but its low market share of the overall connector market growth rate will not have much benefit, estimated in 2007 connector growth rate was only about 6% of the output value of 450 .5 billion dollars, the next few years of new product technology growth rate will not be much help, but with the global economy more closely related.