Sapphire applications open space, whether a second spring has come

Apple has issued invitations to the media persons in recent days, and is scheduled for March 9 Pacific Time (Beijing time at 1:00 on March 10) will hold a special conference in San Francisco Yerba Buena. The invitation slogan for "SpringForward", which previously AppleWatch concern will come to the party, including the sales price and the specific launch time.

According to analysts revealed that 40% of AppleWatch will be equipped with sapphire cover plate optics supplied by Byrne. And if you follow the cover of yield increase causing prices to fall, do not rule out the proportion AppleWatch with sapphire further improved. Sapphire once iPhone6 ​​the abandoned child, but now it has become the darling of AppleWatch. At the same time, Apple suppliers sapphire blue Synopsys recently listed approved. Superposition of multiple positive, the sapphire plate is a second spring has come?

Apple frequently concern sapphire, sapphire applications open space

Sapphire is a concept from the beginning sought GTAT announced last year with Apple signed a multi-year, $ 578 million worth of high-grade sapphire material supply agreement.

And even if Apple and GTAT and cooperation ended, continue to be exposed in the news or ongoing sapphire display Apple patent reserves. In February, Apple approved a sapphire display the new patent. The patent will help Apple to become a pioneer in the new field of display materials. In the patent documents, Apple describes in detail a variety of sapphire crystal used in electronic devices methods, such as covering the iPhone camera lens with a sapphire glass, or the entire phone screen.

"Consumer electronics applications sapphire sapphire growth of new open space." Orient Securities anonymous analysts believe that if the sapphire lens used in mobile phones, Home, screen protective glass, then to 2016 the global smart phone by 1.658 billion computing, mobile application penetration sapphire lens rate of 80%, Home key sapphire application penetration rate of 25%, sapphire screen phone penetration rate of 15% applied, the sapphire application market of nearly $ 5 billion of new space will be more than five times the space LED substrate material.

Industry sources pointed out that LED demand growth, the smartphone market demand for sapphire substrates also achieved strong growth in the past few years to ease the oversupply sapphire ingot market to bring trouble. By 2014, the ratio for the production of smart phones and other mobile devices, parts of Sapphire Ingot demand total demand will rise by 5% last year to 20 percent.


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