Yole Développement organises a Seminar in Korea, concurrently held with International LED Expo 2013. Dedicated to Sapphire and LED areas, the seminar is made up of Yole Développement and industrial players presentations on the ...
Market rumors that the new generation of Apple's iPhone may adopt sapphire crystal glass for the home button have been circulating and Taiwan-based sapphire substrate maker Tera Xtal has reportedly sent samples to Apple for verification. ...
Over-investment has caused rising inventories in the sapphire industry. Although demand has been returning in the first-half of 2013, to reduce inventories, sapphire prices are unlikely to show any strong increase. Digitimes Research ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
Advanced RenewableEnergy Company LLC (ARC Energy) of Nashua, NH, USA, a provider of c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkey solutions for the LED solid-state lighting market, has selected Elmet Technologies Inc of Lewiston, Maine, ...
Tags: ARC Energy, Electronics
The market of sapphire substrates, an upstream material for LEDs, has been in oversupply with prices falling. The prices are lower than the production costs of many firms. This has also caused many tier-two sapphire firms to purchase ...
Tags: LEDs, LED lighting, lighting
Significant overcapacity and low LED substrate prices will affect the profitability and viability of many sapphire players in 2013 and beyond. So says a new market report 'Sapphire Substrates 2013' from analyst company Yole ...
Tags: sapphire substrates, low LED substrate, LED, LED makers
Yole Développement announces its report"Sapphire Substrates 2013".This report provides a detailed analysis of the sapphire industry,including revenue,volume and price trends for all major substrate applications.It also includes an ...
Tags: LED, SoS, sapphire material, LED-on-Si
A shortage of sapphire material between 2010 and 2011 created a window of opportunity for new entrants. In just the last two years, more than 80 companies announced their intention to enter the industry. This trend coupled with slow demand ...
Tags: LEDs, polycrystalline silicon, semiconductor chemicals
Zeta Instruments Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which provides optical profilers for micron-scale surface analysis, says that Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA has ordered multiple units of the Zeta-300 series optical profiler for ...
Tags: Sapphire substrates
Rubicon Technology has placed an order of multiple units of the Zeta 300 series optical profiler from San Jose based Zeta Instruments for its sapphire substrate and wafer production. The company will use the Zeta-300 series optical ...
Tags: North America, Rubicon, Sapphire, Zeta
The price of sapphire substrates has been reaching stability in 2012. Nevertheless, Japan-based sapphire substrate makers have been eager to lower prices, meaning the price difference between Japan- and Taiwan-based sapphire substrates has ...
Tags: sapphire substrates, LED chip
The price of sapphire substrates has been reaching stability in 2012.Nevertheless,Japan-based sapphire substrate makers have been eager to lower prices,meaning the price difference between Japan-and Taiwan-based sapphire substrates has been ...
Tags: Taiwan, Japan, sapphire substrate makers, Taiwan-based LED chipmakers
The price of 2-inch sapphire substrates continues to hold at around US$10/unit. However, industry sources indicated starting from the second half of October, there has been some sapphire substrates being quoted at around US$9/unit. The ...
Tags: Market View, led
The sapphire crystal growing/substrate industry has been experiencing aggressive expansion despite the weak LED market. South Korea-based STC is currently the global leader in the LED sapphire market for its massive capacity. China-based ...
Tags: Market View, led