Publish Date: August 2026
Updated Tariff & Recession Risk Analysis and Forecasts
The Computer & Electronics Manufacturing Market Report covers the $364.4 billion industry which produces information processing, communication, control, and instrumentation systems spanning consumer, commercial, industrial, and defense applications. Competitive structure encompasses global technology corporations alongside specialized manufacturers focused on particular device categories or application sectors. Market demands increasingly emphasize processing capability, energy efficiency, miniaturization, reliability in specific operating environments, and increasingly connectivity supporting network integration. Manufacturers face challenges balancing rapid technology evolution, complex global supply chains, intellectual property protection, and significant tariff considerations affecting both component sourcing and international market access. Successful companies establish advantages through advanced engineering optimizing performance characteristics, specialized capabilities addressing application-specific requirements, operational excellence ensuring quality and cost competitiveness, and increasingly software integration enhancing functionality in a sector where both technical innovation and manufacturing efficiency drive market position.
Computer & Electronics Manufacturing Industry Definition
Computer & Electronics Manufacturing produces equipment for information processing, communications, measurement, control, and electronic components. Companies design and build devices incorporating semiconductor technology, circuit assemblies, and precision components for diverse applications. Manufacturing processes include component placement on circuit boards, precision assembly in clean environments, sophisticated testing, software installation, and quality verification through functional testing. These businesses create technology products essential to modern information systems and electronics. The industry represents one of the most innovation-intensive manufacturing segments, continuously advancing miniaturization, performance, energy efficiency, and increasingly, connectivity capabilities for evolving technology applications while developing enhanced functionality, reliability, and user interfaces for products across consumer, business, and industrial markets.
NAICS Code: 334
Total # of Companies: 10,534
Total # of Factories / Facilities: 11,845
Industry Employees: 825,234
Market Size: $364.4 billion
TARIFF IMPACT (Summer 2025 – Download Report for Updated Analysis)
This report has in-depth analysis on the recent US tariff changes on material costs, quantifying import dependencies, tariff exposure rates, and key source countries for the computer & electronics manufacturing sector.
Estimated Tariff Cost: $22.7 billion
Relative Tariff Impact: SEVERE
Computer & Electronics Manufacturing Report Format
The 2026 U.S. Computer & Electronics Manufacturing Market Report is 63 pages of deep insights into the trends, dynamics, and forecasts shaping the industry. This market report is utilized by professionals to gain a in-depth understanding of the sector for business strategy, planning, forecasting, benchmarking, industry analysis, valuations, identifying organizational inefficiencies, financial analysis, and more.
The report has over 100 industry statistical data sets with historicals (2017-2025), trend analysis, and forecasts for 2026 and the next 5 years. The report includes sales & expense trends, 26 expense categories, financial ratio benchmarks, extensive forecasts, inventory statistics, 31 balance sheet benchmarks, company segmentation analysis, top 50 companies analysis, material costs analysis, profitability metrics, state statistics, plant utilization, employee role analysis, inflation trend benchmarks, wage analysis, in-depth productivity analysis, and much more.
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Report Table of Contents
Explore the below table of contents to appreciate why thousands of professionals, bankers, consultants, accountants, and other executives rely on Kentley Insights for data-rich industry insights.
The sources for the report data include federal and private surveys completed by the majority of companies in the sector covering extensive financial and operational topics for the computer & electronics manufacturing industry. The forecasts in the report are modeled by our research analysts using the latest economic forecasts, industry analysis, and historical trends.
1-2 – Market Report Overview & Contents
3 – Market Overview
– Data Sources & Methodology
– Sector Definition & Examples
– Market Commentary
4 – Report Synopsis – Revenue & Growth
5 – Report Synopsis – Costs & Profitability
SECTION ONE
REVENUE & GROWTH
7 – Market Size Details
– Industry Revenues, Companies, & Facilities
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
8 – Growth Benchmarks
– Sales per Company and Plant
– Analysis 2017-2025
– 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
9 – Product Lines Revenue
10 – BCG Matrix – Income vs. Revenue Growth
11 – Total Industry Sales by Month & Year (2021-2025)
12 – Inventory Value by Month & Year (2021-2025)
13 – Months of Inventory (2021-2025)
14 – Sector Revenue by Segments
– Business Concentration, Size, & Structure
15 – Market Size by State
– Market Size and Rankings
16 – Market Size as a % of State GDP
17 – Sales as a % of State Manufacturing
18 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
19 – Market Segmentation by Business Size
– Business Size Segments – 1-4, 5-9, 10-20, 21-50, 51-100, 101-250, & 250+ employees
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
20 – Segmentation by Concentration (Top 50 Companies)
– Concentration Segments – Top 4, 5-8, 9-20, & 21-50 companies
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
21 – Market Share of Top 50 Companies
22 – Subsector Market Share of Top 50 Companies
23 – Segmentation by Business Structure
– Business Structure Segments – C-Corporations, S-Corporations, Partnerships, & Sole Proprietorships
– Companies, Facilities, Sales, Employees & Payroll
24 – Revenue per Company by State
25 – Revenue per Company by Segments
26 – Revenue per Facility by State
27 – Revenue per Facility by Segment
28 – Subsector Market Size & Growth
29 – Subsector Sales per Company & Plant
30 – 5-Year Consolidation Analysis
31 – Employment Consolidation Analysis
32 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Number of Companies & Facilities
33 – Subsector Consolidation Analysis
– Facilities & Employees per Company
COST, CAPITAL & FINANCIALS
35 – Profitability & Financial Ratio Analysis
Page 36 – Balance Sheet Metrics
– Assets and Liabilities indexed to industry revenue at 100
– 16 Current & Non-Current Assets Categories
– 15 Short-term, Long-term Liabilities, & Net Worth
37 – OPEX
– Industry OPEX Analysis
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
38 – OPEX by Company & Plant
– OPEX per Company & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
Page 39 – OPEX Detail
– 6 Employee Expense Categories
– 8 Cost of Material Categories
– 6 Buildings and Equipment Categories
– 8 Other Operating Expense Categories
-Inventory Breakdown: finished goods, work-in-progress, materials and supplies
40 – Production Material Costs & Tariff Analysis
– Top Production Material Costs Breakdown
– Industry & Material Tariff Analysis – % of costs, import %, tariff costs, source countries
41 – Producer Pricing Index
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
– Monthly PPI Figures for the Past 4 Years
42 – Plant Utilization & Hours
– Plant Utilization Rate
– Plant Operational Hours per Week
– 2022-2025 Historical Figures by Quarter
43 – Reasons for Non-Full Production
– 7 Categories Quarterly Survey Results for Past 2 Years
44 – Productivity & Employment
– Revenue per Employee
– Total Number of Employees
– Employees per Company
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
45 – Employee Productivity by Segments
46 – Employee Productivity by State
47 –Subsector Sales & Payroll per Employee
48 – Payroll
– Payroll per Employee, Company, & Plant
– 2017-2025 Trends, 2026 & 2030 Forecasts
49 – Payroll per Company by Segments
50 – Payroll per Plant by Segments
51 – Payroll per Employee by Segments
52 – Payroll per Employee by State
53 – Employee Composition
– % of Employees for 27 Job Categories
54 – Job Categorization Pay Ranges
– Pay Bands – Bottom 10% & 25%, Mean, Top 25% & 10%
55 – Top 20 Jobs Breakdown
56 – Top 20 Jobs Pay
– Pay Bands
57 – Employees per Company by Segments
58 – Employees per Plant by Segments
59 – Facilities per Company by Segments
60 – Total Employment by State
61 – Population to Every Employee by State
62 – Employees per Facility by State
63 – Overview of Kentley Insights
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Product Lines, Materials, and Jobs Covered in Report
PRODUCT LINES
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing
Communications equipment manufacturing
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing
Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media
MATERIAL COST CATEGORIES
Cost of all other materials and components, parts, containers, and supplies consumed
Materials, ingredients, containers, and supplies, nsk
Semiconductors, including transistors, diodes, rectifiers, and integrated circuits for electronic circuitry, and related devices
Printed circuit assemblies, loaded boards, and modules (printed circuit boards with inserted electronic components)
Computer and peripheral equipment, including parts, attachments, and accessories
Electronic comm systems and equip., including wireless, radio, tv, satellite, airborne transmitters and receivers
Other electronic components, including crystals, filters, LCD screens, transducers, mechanical switches, microwave, etc.
Instruments for measuring and testing electricity and electrical signals, including parts and accessories
Printed circuit boards (without inserted components) for electronic circuitry
Misc. fabricated metal products (excluding hardware, containers, screw machine, bearing components, castings, forgings, and wire)
Capacitors, resistors, coils, transformers, and other inductors
Plastics products (including packaging, foam products, film, sheet, rod, tube, fabricated shapes, bottles, etc.)
Doped chemicals, and other doped materials for electronic use
Silicon chips
Nonferrous metal shapes, forms, sheet, strip, powder, and wire (excluding castings / forgings), excluding aluminum and copper
Thermoplastic and thermosetting resins and plastics materials
All basic organic and inorganic chemicals, excluding petrochemicals
Copper and copper-base alloy wire products
Sheet metal products, excluding stampings
Metal forgings
INDUSTRY JOBS ANALYZED
Electrical, Electronics, and Electromechanical Assemblers
Software Developers and Programmers
Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Engineering Technicians, Except Drafters
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators
Industrial Engineers, Including Health and Safety
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing
Semiconductor Processors
Mechanical Engineers
First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
Architectural and Engineering Managers
General and Operations Managers
Computer Hardware Engineers
Buyers and Purchasing Agents
Computer Support Specialists
Marketing and Sales Managers
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Machinists
Customer Service Representatives
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