Sapphire across the LED, consumer electronics
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According to foreign media reports, Apple will release iPhone6 on September 9, including 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches in two models. Among them, in addition to carrying a faster processor and more advanced camera, the sapphire screen iPhone6 used to be a great spectacle. Analysts said Apple's new release can attract highly sought after repeatedly capital markets; coupled with the recently listed companies have to take a different approach to overweight sapphire business. In this context, the sapphire industry will usher in leaps and bounds. Affected Roshow science and technology stocks continued to rally sapphire, sapphire driven index rose 2.11 percent.
Thus, the sapphire is continuing to expand the application space, that is, from LED applications into the smart phone applications. Moreover, the current market demand for LED traditional applications continues to grow. Data show that this year, increasing demand for LED lighting, coupled with Apple's mobile phone driven market is in short supply status. 2 inches ingot beginning of the year rose to $ 4, 4 inches from ingot to $ 13 by the end of the first quarter of this year rose to $ 15, the second quarter rose to $ 16 in the third quarter rose to 16.8 latest offer -17.65 dollars, accumulated in the first three quarters of this year rose nearly 3 percent, thus downstream substrates will also be synchronized prices, thus further enhancing the ingot and substrate factory revenue and profit margins.
2014 LED chip and the window size of about 5 billion yuan with a sapphire, sapphire cover once Apple applications, the sapphire industry will achieve leapfrog development. Societe Generale Securities expects 2015-2016 Apple sapphire cover demand will reach 7.5 billion yuan, 9.3 billion yuan, non-Apple sapphire cover demand will reach 40 billion yuan, 7.0 billion. Thus, sapphire rapid increases in corporate profitability, growth quickly open space, so as to enhance its intrinsic valuation coordinates.
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Domestic enterprises have the layout of sapphire industry
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The iPhone6 conference is approaching, but on the scale of the sapphire, the industry is still uncertain. DIGITIMES8 month 25 days reported this year, apple mobile phone use sapphire probability is still small, is expected to adopt a sapphire Apple mobile phone to only one quarter of next year may achieve mass production.
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Industry is rife, Apple will hold the conference in September 9th, announced a new generation of mobile phone iPhone6. The industry on the iPhone hardware evolution's main focus is on the body the sapphire. Before, Apple has acquired sapphire manufacturer GTAT, and use the HOME key sapphire materials in iPhone5. Analytic personage thinks, Apple will be possible in the iPhone6 products will be the first time the sapphire material to cover the entire screen, Corelle gorilla cover glass replace early adopted.
Despite the current hardware evolution of intelligent mobile phone has slowed sharply, but Apple's status in the industry determines its every innovation will still affect the nerve. If the sapphire material employed on a large scale in iPhone6 products, not only represents the change direction of the intelligent mobile phone screen material, more on the explosive growth of sapphire industry to greatly boost.
According to the media before, iPhone6 may have two versions, respectively is 4.7 inch and 5.5 inch, 4.7 inch will still use the traditional plate glass, while the 5.5 inch will use sapphire. However, a number of industry organization said, from the analysis of supply chain status, subject to capacity and cost down, short-term inside Apple will sapphire large-scale applications to mobile phone still has not little difficulty. The DIGITIMES report, GTAT provides to Apple's 5.5 inch sapphire mobile phone screen in this year will not be able to supply large quantities, formal be born in 2015 may have to.
The report, apple on sapphire supplier GTAT fourth advance payment to pay in October. While the GTAT before the foreign said, the sapphire in August to enter mass production stage, this year has been no time to complete the large-scale ship. In addition, 5.5 inch screen mobile phone with sapphire cost could reach $100 / piece, and the cover glass cost only about $5-10, and this is short-term inside cannot be one of the reasons the sapphire market acceptance.
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Although the leading demonstration effect have not yet been born, but the industry is still optimistic about the same sapphire industry prospects.
As early as 2012 apple iPhone5 mobile phone to use sapphire as the camera lens, and then to 2013 apple to iPhone5S in the use of sapphire glass HOME key, the industry will have sapphire as the hardware of future intelligent mobile phone standard choice. Forecast report shows, with the large-scale application of sapphire in the mobile phone lens, the Home key, the screen protection glass, sapphire market share from 15% in 2013 to 55% in 2015.
The sapphire material weaknesses only cost. The personage inside course of study points out, the cover glass manufacturers have been considering the problem of price, the future of sapphire prices will also be expected.
From the observation of the capital market, each big company smell opportunities already ahead of action. Analysts have pointed out, apple large-scale use of sapphire follow practices, will inevitably lead to the stock market more Samsung brand, thus stimulating the intelligent mobile phone supporting hardware market another round of high growth.
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The second half of sapphire ingot prices gradually rise slowly
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LED chip link prosperity depends on the demand, but supply depends on the MOCVD devices. After entering the 2 quarter LED chip supply and marketing steel enterprises the main production equipment MOCVD full load production, chip shipments increased inventory at historic lows, some enterprises zero inventory operation.
Supply and demand is expected, the second half of the LED chip will be more balanced and even reverse, in short supply situation in a certain range. Epitaxial chip enterprises with the further release of the expansion of production capacity, profitability has continued to improve. In terms of price, the short-term upward probability is not big, but in the supply and demand improved the situation, prices stabilized.
Since 2014, with the LED epitaxial chip enterprise MOCVD equipment capacity, plus apple with sapphire news stimulation, the upstream sapphire demand better, supply and demand situation improved, sapphire ingot and substrate prices gradually rise slowly.
Since the 2 quarter of 2 inch sapphire ingot prices remain at $5 /mm, and the maximum amount of 2 inch substrate prices rebounded to around $8, the price increase in 15%. but in LED chip prices probability is not the case, and sapphire expanding production capacity, 2 inch sapphire crystal and the substrate is not in short supply. So in the short term the sapphire substrate prices limited space.
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Market demand and development space to open the sapphire
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After the madness 2010-2011 expansion, the sapphire material industry then experienced a serious oversupply of capacity brought low tide, sapphire material prices also continue to continue to decline, two-inch flat substrates from 2012 when more than 30-year highs high dollar has fallen nearly 7 dollars historic lows. 2013, both the international giants, or engaged in domestic Sapphire Dan Changjing and substrate processing enterprises, to hand over the transcripts can be said to be gloomy, most enterprises at a loss, only a small part of the business to achieve profit.
With the strong growth of LED general lighting market, LED upstream manufacturing capacity utilization also continue to climb, with the first half of 2014, global LED manufacturers basically at full production capacity of the state, the domestic LED epitaxial chip companies such as three-tier security Optoelectronics, are also in full production status. According to SEMI China forthcoming & ldquo; upstream Chinese LED manufacturing report 2014 & rdquo; show that in 2014 China LED manufacturing capacity upstream rate is expected to reach nearly 90% (excluding discontinued manufacturers), for sapphire substrate demand will continue to rise . Although the growing demand for sapphire substrates, but LED chip prices continue downward, LED epitaxial silicon class of customers is more difficult to accept price increases demand.
Sapphire ingot prices despite the rise in recent months, but long grain between domestic companies due to differences in product yield, technical route, regional energy costs, the profitability of the application structure has also been caused by differentiation, whole grain companies currently long profitability is still limited. On the other hand, due to the crystal rod prices, making sapphire flat sheet processing in business costs go up so the current level of sapphire substrates almost still no money or even losses. The sapphire substrate manufacturing sector in the PSS (patterned sapphire substrate, Patterned Sapphire Substrate) due to the current market, there is a certain supply gap and can maintain high profits. Overall, in the LED chip prices continue to trend lower, sapphire bottom nor to the state out of stock, so the limited space of the short-term price sapphire substrate, in the medium term, due to the LED industry boom to rise, with sapphire materials continue to expand in other application areas, the sapphire substrate demand will continue to rise, but whether it will remains to be seen price increases and space.
Compared with a glass material, a sapphire material having a high hardness, scratch resistance and other characteristics. Although the luxury mobile phone brand VERTU long sapphire material as its mobile phone display cover material, but never like Apple caused so much concern. Since Apple iPhone5 2012 on the first import of sapphire material as the camera lens cover has constantly raised market concerns, followed by sapphire material used in the iPhone5S is also extended to the Home key. While industry speculation sapphire material at Apple products where an application will, when in November 2013, a very special Advanced Technologies (GTAT) today announced that it has signed a multi-year period with apples, worth $ 578 million senior sapphire material supply agreement, including Apple plans in Arizona designed to build a content processing sapphire material production plant. This news was disclosed, causing great concern to the industry and lively discussion, although there is still the view that, due to the yield, productivity, technology and other reasons, may not all use the phone on iPhone6 sapphire material as the display cover materials, but Apple the sapphire material applications continue to expand into the next generation devices such as the iPhone and iWatch will be inevitable. It is reported that, GTAT Arizona sapphire plant has installed more than 2,000 seats crystal growth furnace, and Apple's suppliers in China Bern Optics, blue Synopsys has also begun processing 4.7-inch, 5.5-inch iPhone sapphire display cover.
Apple's mobile phone industry as a benchmark for companies, their every move has affected the business industry trend and its supply chain. According to SEMI China survey, whether it is Samsung, LG or Huawei, millet, vivo, Cool, and many other domestic and foreign mobile phone manufacturers have started showing interest in sapphire material, some manufacturers have begun to test small quantities, in the future there will be more more mobile phone manufacturers to use sapphire material added to the camp in the past. 2013, the global smart phone shipments reached 1 billion, and is still rapidly growing, global smart phone shipments in 2014 amounted to 280 million in the first quarter, the top five smartphone vendors shipped a total of approximately 167 million Ministry of sapphire material if the future can continue to import other smart phone manufacturers except Apple, the market will be very huge room for growth.
In addition to smartphones, the future wearable device (WD, Wearable Device) will also become an important application of sapphire material market. Apple only an example, if iWatch can achieve 50 million sales in 2015, for example, only iWatch one can consume about 23 million two-inch sapphire substrate rather (TIE) usage. Therefore, we expect total global consumption Sapphire Sapphire Material years from 2013 to about 60 million to 450 million TIE TIE increase the amount of 2016, including smart phones, wearable devices will be the most important part of the increase, future 5 years sapphire material market is expected to grow over 10 times.
SEMI China has committed to build China's industrial platform to sapphire material, for example, currently SEMICON China LED area brings together many of the world's leading manufacturers of sapphire material and its various process equipment and materials manufacturers need, including Monocrystal, Yunnan Blue crystal, Guizhou Haotian Optoelectronics, Nanjing, Beijing Jing, East Crystal Electronic, Yuan Liang technology, crystal-liter energy, Juropol, Crystal Sense, Kemet, Speedfam, the first well-known companies such as Proton optoelectronic products, including ingot, substrate, PSS , crystal growth furnace, cutting and grinding and polishing equipment and diamond wire, polishing fluid, DPM, providing one-stop solutions. In addition, the area is not only involved in the field of LED sapphire substrate material also used in mobile electronic devices to show sapphire window material, due to the adjacent SEMI China's FPD China touch screen area, LED manufacturing industry in attracting attention but also attract a large number of mobile electronic device displays a high degree of attention to those areas. In addition, SEMI China in May 2014 to explore the establishment of international standards for materials, sapphire Professional Committee, which brings together leading manufacturers and experts at home and abroad to jointly promote the development of international standards sapphire material.
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Sapphire rumors may not display
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In August 4th, the message says, an LEDinside report published this week so that the people of sapphire screen could be used in the iPhone 6 mass production models proposed strongly suspected.
In addition, the Imperial College London in London (Imperial College) materials department responsible person, the Apple Corp of consultant Neal · El Ford is also presented, based on previously widespread “ iPhone 6 sapphire crystal screen ” video, the new iPhone screen can't be blue gem.
Earlier media reports, apple iPhone 6 will become the biggest yet release activity. Reported that, before the end of 2015 the total output of the models will reach 70000000 to 80000000.
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Sapphire equipment and materials will become a focus of touch.
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Although the touch panel industry cold, but the touch panel exhibition booth number has reached new highs in. In 2014 Touch Taiwan coming in Nangang Exhibition Hall, this year more than 400 exhibitors, booth number more than 1200, that Apple will use sapphire related equipment and materials suppliers, is the biggest bright spot in this touch exhibition.
In 2014 Touch Taiwan called the touch panel and the optical film, process equipment, materials exhibition, the Federation of Taiwan industries (TDUA) display by the host, and TDUA is TTLA, TDMDA, TEEIA three on behalf of Taiwan panel, materials and components, equipment industry association jointly established, therefore, although Touch Taiwan looks like the touch panel show, but in fact the cover panel manufacturers downstream, including equipment and materials suppliers.
AUO and Innolux is one of the largest pillar exhibition, in addition, the international giants Corelle is more involved in the last year; to Gongxiangshengju China Huaxing photoelectric due to internal personnel changes, will miss the Taiwan exhibition this year; Japan Sharp and Mitsubishi established exhibitors; Han factory is in Taiwan the touch control panel show holding highly attention, registration number Re innovation high, but still planning to come to Taiwan exhibitors.
Among them, being named has received orders Chinese laser processing equipment factory Han's laser technology and another is due to Manz acquisition of Taiwan equipment Shang Yazhi, will debut.
Han's laser will display the most prosperous sapphire processing equipment, including high strength glass processing equipment, flat panel display laser repairing and terminal cutting and other processing equipment, cutting and breaking device, LED automatic production line equipment, measurement and 3D coordinate measuring equipment. Han's laser will display the most prosperous sapphire processing equipment, including high strength glass processing equipment, flat panel display laser repairing and terminal cutting and other processing equipment, cutting and breaking device, LED automatic production line equipment, measurement and 3D coordinate measuring equipment.
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Development sapphire screen Kyocera phone
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Foreign media CNET has learned through industry sources, the Japanese mobile phone maker Kyocera Corporation is developing a sapphire glass screen of the phone. There has also been a video Kyocera test lab sapphire screen video on YouTube.
Kyocera video with an ordinary scratch-resistant sapphire glass scratch-resistant glass and the impact of comparative experiments. Kyocera aspects of this video declined to comment, but insiders confirmed by CNET this video for real lab scenarios.
Sapphire glass screen because of its good scratch resistance attention has been paid, CNET mobile phone reviewer Jessica Dolcourt said that the current sapphire glass which has been applied to aerospace, military and medical fields. Rumors of Apple's upcoming new machine iPhone 6, its screen will also use sapphire glass material. But Corning said sapphire glass is expensive and harmful to the environment, the best choice is its Gorilla Gorilla screen phones.
Kyocera had previously developed over the sapphire glass, the production of mobile phones to rugged known. The development of the Smart Sonic Receiver phone is able to reduce the conduction sound through vibration, reducing audio openings to enhance the phone's rugged durability.
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Invest 120 million yuan project settled sapphire processing Citylink
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Recently, even the county a total investment of 120 million yuan contract to introduce sapphire processing projects. It is reported that the sapphire Applied Materials processing project, the project is located in the industrial park Strait Citylink photoelectric industrial park two II plant, covering about 36 acres. Contracted projects settled, will further enhance the Liancheng County artificial sapphire material processing, application level.
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Sapphire cover glass era will officially open
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In addition to the inherent physical sapphire high hardness, can withstand everyday dust, gravel outside wear, often considered by consumers is a rare, precious minerals, and natural product manufacturers are willing to cater to both the consumer psychology to achieve product marketing purposes. But in fact, the vast majority of sapphire material used in consumer products, like the so-called "Crystal" in general, in fact, are artificially manufactured. Sapphire is expensive, not because of the rare, but because of the manufacturing process (crystal growth) need to spend a lot of energy and time.
Currently doubt and commercial operations
Sapphire cover supply chain mainly material (sapphire ingot and substrate) and processing (shaping and coating). Although common in many fine watches sapphire, but it really is the main LED application client sapphire material vendors. The main sapphire material manufacturers from around the world, such as Monocrystal, Rubicon, STC, OCI, Kyocera and USIO. These companies have a huge number of Sapphire Dan Changjing stove, long after the ingot, using diamond wire saw cutting through grinding, polishing and other processes to form a substrate (substrate) is sold to downstream customers, including 2-inch, 4 inch and 8-inch form.
Unlike the Rubicon and Monocrystal is well known sapphire material manufacturers, very special advanced crystal growth furnace equipment is known, rather than the production of sapphire material. Over the past six months, about GT Advanced in Arizona (Mesa) crystal growth furnace installation message has never stopped. The media has to be estimated number of 500 units of production capacity, and calculate the supply of these products can only iPhone within a year about one-third of the demand, the conclusion that Apple will have more natural crystal growth furnace needs.
Camera, fingerprint protective cover (less than 0.5 inches) or smart watches (approximately 1.5/1.7 inches) on sapphire consumption is not large, but as a cover glass using (at least 4.7 inches), the substrate size, prices, economic cut, shape and processing yield loss and supply chain capacity will definitely be another level of consideration. Furthermore, if Apple really want to replace the entire piece of sapphire material supplied by Corning and other manufacturers of aluminum silicate glass, then to do as a bargaining chip iPhone sales, Apple can actually negotiate directly with global manufacturers sapphire material , now you can get a favorable price and production capacity, does not seem very special needs through advanced, create your own from scratch sapphire material supply chain.
From Apple and GT Advanced observed in commercial operations within the past three years, Apple may be able to outline the underlying intentions and strategies. September 12, 2013 and January 23, 2014, Apple obtained from the United States Patent Office (USPTO) on sapphire patent approved two: one on the sapphire substrate of a multilayer sandwich patent (sapphire laminate), and the other is related to the multi-fixation technology patents (attachment techniques).
November 4, 2013, announced that it has signed a multi-year on sapphire material supply agreement with Apple. According to the agreement, GT will purchase and operate advanced sapphire material production equipment, and the equipment will be installed in Apple's new plant (America Arizona Mesa). Apple will be a very special advanced approximately $ 578 million pre-paid amount, the latter since 2015, with at least five years, in succession to Apple's reimbursement related costs. In addition, in November 2012, GT Advanced Hyperion acquired from Twin Creeks thin slicing technique can be used to cut thin thickness of about 20 microns. April 30, 2014, GT Advanced with EV Group also announced that it will jointly develop relevant professional laminating process and equipment, so that by the Hyperion technology cut out thin (sapphire, silicon carbide) can be treated and the particular substrate (glass, silicon, plastic) two-phase fit.
From the above point of view of business practices, we can deduce that two patents of Apple's content with a very special advanced process technology should be relevant. In other words, the former use of the patent and to establish its own supply chain to build brand competition threshold, while the latter is to be patented ideas to achieve mass production.
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LED Accessories - Trends sapphire substrate
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2014 Many patterned sapphire substrate plant plans to significantly expand its production capacity, LED components required to enhance the brightness, LED factory to improve the use of patterned sapphire substrate volume. And due to 4-inch high demand, so manufacturers will migrate to the new 4-inch production line development.
Taiwanese plant expansion moves the most active, the two sides patterned sapphire substrate plant. DIGITIMESResearch statistics, in 2014 the first quarter of Taiwan patterned sapphire substrate average monthly production capacity of 2.19 million (calculated at 2 inches) to the fourth quarter of 2014, the average monthly production capacity will increase to 4.27 million, and the quarterly rate of increase up to 20% above.
2014 Rui Jie and two plants trillion rather than weighing up to about 50% of the top five manufacturers concentration of 75.3% by the first quarter of 2014 will increase to 81.3% in the fourth quarter before 10 cause if further calculations by the industry concentration degree, if the observed patterned sapphire substrate plant in Taiwan's industrial concentration. From 95.6 percent in the first quarter of 2014 will increase to 97.6%
4th quarter
For a 4-inch sapphire substrate patterned high demand, in 2014 with the two sides to enhance the 4-inch LED epitaxial plant capacity proportion. DIGITIMESResearch consider each quarter capacity utilization, lower the number of new capacity, patterned sapphire substrate outsourcing and other factors. Both sides of the first quarter of 2014, 4-inch sapphire substrate patterned average monthly demand of 462,000, the third quarter will reach a peak of 579,000 in the fourth quarter due to the off-season to enter the industry, the demand will decrease.
Taiwan patterned sapphire substrate plant also supply to mainland industry, and in the strait 4 inch patterned sapphire substrate supply side. Relative continent patterned sapphire substrate plant to supply the amount is not high compared with Taiwan factory. Also, consider the industry has to overcome the problem of yield 4 inch conversion process, so the first quarter of 2014, the two sides can supply 4-inch sapphire substrate patterned average monthly volume of 332,000, the second half of each quarter to March 2014 both the amount will be 544 000, 643 000. If both sides of the above 4-inch LED epitaxial plant needs a few pieces compared to 2014 can be found in the third quarter of 4-inch sapphire substrate patterned tight supply situation is still showing.
4-inch full-year 2014 rose more obvious, patterned sapphire substrate prices respects. $ 51 from the first quarter, will rise to $ 55 in the fourth quarter, an increase of 7.8%, mainly due to price increases by the sapphire crystal rods, but also because of the 4-inch LED epitaxial plant patterned sapphire substrate demand caused by warming; As for the 2-inch substrate is presented edged situation, estimated 2014 annual growth of 4% in the fourth quarter will be watching $ 13.
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