Apple fueled sapphire concept

Apple fueled sapphire prices rose 40%

The day before, the international companies including Rubincon and Monocrystal of the ingot prices call up, ingot prices from the current $4 per mm up to $5.5, or nearly 40%. Prior to the acquisition of apple plant for production of sapphire glass manufacturer GT Advance is currently in the new factory where mesa, released a job posting, said it would expand the production of sapphire, iPhone6 will be the first to use sapphire glass, sapphire industry will usher in the development of machine is very good in. In addition, Apple also submitted a day ago on sapphire material patent technology.

The United States Patent Office on Thursday announced a patent Apple filed, which is about how to plan the sapphire material equipment in the electronic products surface. This means that apple is indeed considering the use of sapphire in the future iOS or Mac products. About a month ago, the U.S. Patent Office also disclosed that apple is applying for a flexible sapphire transparent screen around patent.

In December last year, which is known as the killer patent file description, apple said the future of the screen will be made of sapphire material, a transparent property. In addition, Apple also revealed that this screen will be installed on the liquid metal framework. It is not difficult to imagine that apple is to create a better quality of electronic products and body preparation.

In addition to patent applications, we can also see other aspects of Apple's upcoming sapphire products signs. According to the latest foreign media reports, Apple's Sapphire manufacturer GTAdvanced days before the cooperation in mesa issued recruitment notice. This is not the same as the recruitment of the last apple, they mainly need to produce operators and technicians, process engineering manager and test manager. However, it does not indicate when the factory will begin to operate as apple sapphire glass production.

According to reports, the degree of resistance to wear of sapphire glass is much higher than other types of glass, are now using this material in iPhone camera protective glass and the Home bond, but apparently Apple intends to expand the scope of use of this material. A report last year said that the future of smart phones may use sapphire glass to replace other materials of glass.

It is worth noting that the recent lighting orders LED epitaxial plant continuous detonation quantity, and optical applications increased significantly, extending from the intelligent mobile phone to iWatch, the sapphire ingot prices continue to rise in February, manufacturers, institutions generally expected sapphire material factory season is expected to be better than last season.

Currently associated with the sapphire material factory listed companies have trillion far and the peak, which is far greater than the proportion of LED in the lighting, is expected to benefit, is expected this year will increase the performance of LED lighting. More than the peak of its poly photoelectric is mainly the production of sapphire crystal rod, will also benefit from the price effect driven by international manufacturers.

According to media reports, the sapphire material factory Jiajing general manager He Junxian said that at present the sapphire material in LED application of strong market demand, patterned sapphire substrate (PSS) in March has the opportunity price. Due to the increasing demand for the entire market, the price of sapphire material will continue to rise this year. He Junxian said that the current international giants, including Rubincon and Monocrystal, and so on the price of crystal rod shouted up, crystal rod price from $4 to $5.5 per millimeter. Good crystal optimistic about the growth of sapphire material this year, will expand the production capacity of crystal. The long crystal single monthly production capacity is about 200000 mm, 100 platform in Taiwan, is expected in February will be 50 mobile platform to the mainland of Ningxia Yinchuan, the new plant plans to May production, estimated at the end there will be 100 units, will add 100 units next year.

According to the understanding, including Jia Jing, Zhaoyuan, beautiful sapphire crystal materials factory expansion, mainly because the LED is a quarter of the market demand significantly improved. The optical part of the plant material factory sapphire have gains in optical applications received by the mobile phone number of mobile phone factory orders, factory production of the existing fingerprint identification, the future will be the development of application in protective glass screen; while wearing the device iWatch will use the sapphire material, the industry believe that this year is a boom season a good season.

In sapphire material factory, trillion far in the layout of the LED lighting industry in the crown, LED lighting demand in the first quarter of growth, far from the biggest benefit. Currently trillion far PSS full load, while the monthly production capacity of flat film is close to one million, the production capacity has been fast loaded, the first quarter performance is expected to be better than the previous quarter.

Xin said diamond head, in the consumer electronics industry LED season is usually off-season, this year if both sides of the business can eat, there will be no obvious season throughout the year.

Sapphire Concept taking over the tide of speculation

With the concept of LED shares continued to pull up, HC semitek, Sanan optoelectronics mainstream concept of shares within a month out of the nearly doubled the trend. In the short term, there is a certain technical adjustment needs. But in view of the LED industry chain is still optimistic about the expected LED concentration mechanism, speculation boom will continue, but the star varieties will further spread, spread from simple lighting to other areas, such as the recent effect have the prices of sapphire concept. Yesterday, the East crystal electronic lead sapphire stocks appeared collective rise situation.

Everbright Securities in a report pointed out that the 20 million mobile phone screen protection film on the total demand for sapphire will be equivalent to the total demand for the LED industry, once the phone screen protection film began large-scale use of Blaupunkt