Wearable device to promote industrial demand of sapphire substrate

Global market research agency TrendForce's green LEDinside Research Department released the latest "global 2014 sapphire market report" pointed out that, by the end of 2014, the upcoming Apple iWatch will be possible using sapphire table cover. IWatch sapphire surface cover is expected in 2014 will reach the world sapphire market demand of 6%. If the 2015 sales figures to market the most optimistic estimates of sixty million, will account for the global sapphire substrate was 27%, and the total amount of consumption of the sapphire substrate compared to 2014 will grow more than doubled, reaching 129%.

According to the LEDinside survey, at the end of the year the debut of Apple iWatch's cover will have the opportunity to import sapphire material. Sapphire material is wear resistant, scratch resistance characteristics, traditional luxury watches with sapphire crystal table cover have been around for ages. But hand-held application device of the huge market demand, compared with the traditional fine watches every year only one million the size of the market far, sapphire crystal growth process and the traditional table cover the flame fusion method has been unable to cope with the huge market demand for handheld devices. According to the iWatch specification, you must use the special specification sapphire ingot manufacturing can meet the requirements of process design in the future, this also explains why Apple need to actively build sapphire industry supply chain.


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