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Pondering LED Sapphire Substrate Popularity

A senior executive from a sapphire enterprise reveals that Apple's stepping into the sapphire market will influence the supply and demand to some extent; previous excess capacity is likely to be exceeded.

From: iAbrasive.comDate: 2014-08-25 01:33:35Views: 316

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Each time the iPhone adopts new materials or new technologies in manufacturing, others follow suit. This time it is no exception. Not only have cellphone industry manufacturers cooperated with sapphire manufacturers, but a large sapphire manufacturing base has been set up. A senior executive from a sapphire enterprise reveals that Apple's stepping into the sapphire market will influence the supply and demand to some extent; previous excess capacity is likely to be exceeded. However, it is undeniable that news about the sapphire project to be listed is prevalent.

Since the sapphire industry development space is broad, raw and auxiliary material industries that produce high purity aluminum oxide, diamond wire, graphite crucible, abrasive grains, polishing liquid, etc. will benefit. For example, a 2-cun sapphire wafer will consume 2.5 meters to 3 meters of diamond wire, assuming that global consumption was 1.3 hundred million 2-cun sapphire wafers, then diamond wire value will increase to 20 hundred million Yuan accordingly. If other smart phones also promote sapphire screen application, the demand is bound to increase. As a result, the diamond wire market will hit 10 billion Yuan. At present, although there are a great many emerging competitors, practitioners are optimistic. The problem is that the sapphire defect rate is relatively high, and its capacity is low, so the technology has to be improved.

At the end of last year, the hearsay that iPhone 6 would adopt sapphire to replace glass-cover plate had facilitated sapphire's popularity in the emerging application field market. Nowadays, the sapphire project is spreading in full swing all around China like the LED industry. "It is without a doubt that in the current LED market, sapphire supply and demand is stable. If no big changes take place, companies are preparing for scale strength competition", said an insider from the chip industry. Thus sapphire manufacturers will strive for a stronger pattern.

 

 

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