The outbreak of Taiwan new year demand for sapphire substrate plant work not on vacation

Large demand for sapphire substrate! LED lighting and optical market grab capacity, plus Apple actively into the fourth quarter of last year, has been in short supply event, the industry said the first quarter of this year, sapphire demand more prosperous, overall revenue revenue will be the fourth quarter of last year the Chinese new year will be better, don't rush off.

The industry pointed out that the current market supply and demand has been completely reversed the sapphire, the current price pressure, especially the LED lighting market focus on the luminous efficiency, make a significant increase of PSS patterned sapphire sea this year, the PSS substrate is full or even in short supply, so this year with an annual output of over line required overtime.

The sapphire substrate polishing sheet, double single cast slice distinguish, 2 inch wafer price of $6.8, $7, 2 inch PSS base price of about $12.5-14, 4 inch wafer $30-34, 4 inch PSS substrate is down $55 in the first quarter of this year, have the opportunity to rise 10%-15%.

With HTC, LG has a non Apple mobile phone with fingerprint recognition, Chinese brand HUAWEI, ZTE, Coolpad are launched in the fingerprint identification for its mobile phone market in the order of wisdom, the outbreak period, plus the LED lighting demand began to increase, the sapphire substrate into the operation stage of the outbreak, and gradually get rid of the past operating the bottom of the ebb tide, which focused on on the patterned sapphire substrate and the crystal is expected to re Ruijie beauty for OTC, a sapphire boom took off.