Buoyed by rising sales generated by its sapphire ingot-making subsidiary USI Optronics, ferrite core maker Acme Electronics is expected to return to profitability in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to market watchers. Acme posted a ...
Spurred by demand from the LED lighting and mobile device markets, sapphire substrate manufacturers have been actively expanding their production capacity, according to the report ‘Global Sapphire Substrate Market 2013’ from ...
Tags: LED, smartphone
Traditionally employed to make LEDs, sapphire substrates now are being used by Apple and other smartphone vendors as covers for camera lenses and home buttons, contributing to a rapid growth in sapphire demand, according to IHS. Demand ...
With more and more smartphones and other portable devices adopting sapphire as cover glass, sapphire ingot vendor Sapphire Technology Company (STC) is looking to double its production capacity to meet the anticipated growth in demand, ...
Displaybank's recent market report on the cost competiveness of LED chips. This report conducts a thorough analysis on the supply price history, trends and forecast of main materials that compose packaged LEDs across the entire LED value ...
Tags: LED Chips
Affected by LED chip’s consecutive price drop and efforts to control costs, Taiwanese chip manufacturers including Epistar, FOREPI, and others are turning to Chinese sapphire substrates. A move that directly contends Taiwanese ...
China-based GCL-Poly Energy Holdings has quit production of sapphire ingots and will sell two factories together with production equipment in eastern China to Taiwan-based sapphire wafer maker Tera Xtal Technology. GCL Poly's suspended ...
Tags: GCL-Poly, China, Sapphire Ingot
It is reported that demand for sapphire ingot becomes larger, even its demand exceeds supply, therefore its price soared in June, the average price rose from $ 3 per millimeter (mm) to $ 3.8 per mm, an growth of 20% just in a few weeks. ...
Tags: LED, LED backlight, Lighting
Prices for sapphire ingots in the third quarter of 2013 are expected to increase by 15-20% on quarter mainly due to growing demand from LED makers and China-based smartphone vendors, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Prices ...
Tags: Taiwan, smartphone, Consumer Electronics
According to the latest '2013 Global Sapphire Substrate Market Report' published by the LEDinside research department of market research institute TrendForce, sapphire substrate manufacturers are optimistic about the emerging demand for ...
Tags: substrates LEDs, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Sapphire ingot manufacturers are in a state of “the big gets bigger”, says LEDinside, a research department of TrendForce. According to the firm’s 2013 Global Sapphire Substrate Market Report, cost competitive, first-tier ...
Tags: LEDs, Electronics
The LED industry gained a foothold for growth in the parts and materials industry after LED technology was applied to the TV backlight unit (BLU). The industry is now about to advance again with the development of the LED lighting, an end ...
Tags: LED Ingot Market, Lights
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
Taiwan-based sapphire wafer makers are expected to have 2013 revenues decreasing by 10% from 2012 because many China-based fellow makers will bring production capacities into operation in 2013 and this will cause price drops, according to ...
Tags: Sapphire Wafer, Sapphire ingot, Sapphire
US-based sapphire substrate maker Rubicon has announced fourth-quarter 2012 revenues with on-quarter increase. However, the contract between Rubicon and Korea-based LG Innotek ended in mid-December 2012, and this means sales of Rubicon's ...
Tags: sapphire substrate, Rubicon, LG Innotek