According to market analysts said the sales of this year, including connections, sockets and cables, including the overall Serial ATA / SATA connectors is expected to reach 903 million, 141 million in 2003. Serial interface technology itself, it has reduce cables and improve data throughput and improve the advantages of crosstalk and impedance matching problems.

In addition, the enthusiasm of the people for the serial interface, can be partly attributed to the leading chip and connector manufacturers promote. Intel recently introduced the 925X Express, 915G Express chipset with integrated SATA controller, supports four SATA ports. Market demand impetus to improve performance in the transition of the interface to the SATA connector, if the industry had to continue to improve the speed of the parallel interface will lead to greater interference between all product lines, the SATA connector by turning to the use of the differential signal to eliminate signal crosstalk. He also said that in addition to higher data rate, the SATA connector also provides a higher level of signal integrity, low voltage signal, as well as the body for better air circulation and fewer number of pins. SATA connector one of the key benefits of desktop PC manufacturers to replace the original 2-inch wide ribbon cable, with 0.25 inches of cable and 80-pin connector replaced by a 7-pin connection , which means that cable space occupied by the greatly reduced, thus improving the air circulation within the chassis, allows for heat dissipation.

Market performance has developed a number of SATA connectors products began to support high-speed signal of the next-generation SATAII specifications or provide a variety of new options, connectors meet the 1.5Gbit / s SATA connector serial data transfer rate and support 3.5Gbit / s, the next generation of high-speed SATAII backplane interface speed. The backplane connector for the connection between the server and enterprise storage applications, the I / O controller module and SATA connectors disk backplane. Users do not need extremely high reliability and long normal operation time applications, high-end system using the SATA connector is a more cost-effective solution than the cost of Fibre Channel or Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drive lower, SAS backplane connectors can support both SAS and SATA connectors, two storage drives, which allows the user according to the requirements of custom systems, if they need a backplane storage, they can use lower-cost SATA connector drives and high cost, the trade-off between high performance SAS drives, which will depend on the specific application requirements.

SATA connectors are not directly after welding laminated on the circuit board lamination portion drilling diameter of only 0.6mm, it saves space to layout the circuit trace. This connector can also be stacked end to end. Minimum order quantities of each pair of contacts on the pricing of $ 0.13, the current sample can provide delivery up to 8 to 10 weeks. Extends the SATA connector product line, launched a series of latching SATA cables and connectors. The connection of the new latch design for the SATA connectors in the PC storage applications. The product is an extension of the existing SATA connector and cable product line, they also can be used for server and network storage markets.