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Sapphire Screen Has Brought the Abrasives Industry New Challenges

The newly launched Apple Watch adopted the sapphire screen, which signified a breakthrough of sapphire being applied in intelligent devices, which was a good piece of news to sapphire manufacturers.

From: iAbrasive.comDate: 2014-09-20 01:55:51Views: 288

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On Sept. 10, 2014 (Beijing time), Apple convened the press conference for iPhone 6, and officially released iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus- , and Apple Watch. It was disappointing that the hotly debated sapphire screen didn't appear on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Surprisingly, the newly launched Apple Watch adopted the sapphire screen, which signified a breakthrough of sapphire being applied in intelligent devices, which was a good piece of news to sapphire manufacturers.

Although Apple did not adopt sapphire on the iPhone 6 screen for various reasons, China's domestic companies have shown the tendency to follow suit. Recently, it has been said that Xiaomi has made contact with South Korean sapphire manufacturers, but Xiaomi officially has no response to the report. On August 25, Huawei launched the first sapphire screen smart phone--Huawei P 7, which has become the first smart phone in China to be equipped with the sapphire screen.

Let's discuss the differences between the sapphire used in the cellphone screen and the sapphire used as substrate.

When used in the screen, the sapphire's size is basically around 5 inches, which may lead to an increased demand for sapphire. The existing sapphire processing capacity is not currently adequate to fully satisfy the cellphone screen application. Besides that, since cellphone screens require large sizes of sapphire, the demand for crystal ingot, and the technology to develop larger ingot needs improving.

Changes in both sapphire material sizes and shapes will lead to sapphire crystal stress changes, the result of which will be a greater demand for the abrasives processing. iAbrasive has learned that to make the appearance of the cellphone thinner, cellphone manufacturers have certain requirements for the sapphire screen's thickness and the edge processing quality. Learning how to make use of the existing conditions to process sapphire screens at a reasonable cost is a new challenge for sapphire processing companies and material suppliers.

Author: Liwei Chu 
Copyright: iAbrasive.com--Abrasives & Diamond Tools Market

 

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