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14 PCB007 MAGAZINE I OCTOBER 2019 Chinese Review: The 2018 NTI-100 Top Global PCB Fabricators Feature by Yonglin Gong CHINA PRINTED CIRCUIT ASSOCIATION (CPCA) PRINTED CIRCUIT INFORMATION MAGAZINE NTI released the list of the world's top PCB manufacturers in 2018, and this information is of great interest to the industry to determine what is go- ing on in the industry and analyze the global situation. In the early days of this project, the list concentrated on the top 100 companies, so it continues to be called NTI-100 for short. Now, it is compiled into Chinese. I will exam- ine the currency exchange rate, com- pany rankings, global distribution of the top-ranked companies, global to- tal PCB output, and the automotive sector. Currency Exchange Rate PCBs are produced all over the world, and the currencies are different from country to country. Therefore, the output value is calculated in U.S. dollars so as to unify and normalize the data. For reference, the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and other currencies is shown in Table 1 . Table 1: Average exchange rates used to convert local currencies to USD.