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Apple iPod Touch 6 Loses Sapphire Covered Lens
Nov 19, 2015iFixit recent teardown of iPod touch 6 revealed the absence of sapphire covered lens, reported Apple Insider. Despite upgrading the rear camera resolution to 8 megapixel, making it more comparable to the iPhone 6, the scratch resilient ...
Tags: Apple, iPod touch 6, Sapphire Covered Lens
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Apple's Alchemy Turns Sapphire Into US Manufacturing Jobs
Nov 5, 2015The factory in Mesa, Arizona, had never been intended to house the manufacture of a gemstone. Ahead of the photovoltaics industry’s 2011-2012 meltdown, First Solar had built it with the aim of producing 280 MW worth of solar panels ...
Tags: Arizona, photovoltaics industry, Alchemy Turns Sapphire
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Painful Situations Be Unavoidable in Mature Phase
Oct 15, 2015“The (Chinese) LED industry is in deep waters, and only a few manufacturers will survive in the next few years,” said several industry insiders during recent interviews with LEDinside’s editorial team in China. With the ...
Tags: LED industry, Chinese LED market
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Major Company Restructure Market Trends Will Continue Throughout The Year
Dec 24, 2014In late 2013, LEDinside team forecasted major company restructure market trends will continue throughout the year. The trend has been consistent in 2014, as more lighting manufacturers take necessary restructure measures to remain ...
Tags: LED component, LED light
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GTAT Move to Seek Bankruptcy Protection on October 6 Came as a Surprise to The IT Industry
Oct 17, 2014GT Advanced Technologies' (GTAT) move to seek bankruptcy protection on October 6 came as a surprise to the IT industry especially because the maker was a major supplier of Apple for sapphire screens. The related supply chain in general, ...
Tags: GTAT, Sapphire Industry
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GTAT Applied for Bankruptcy Protection
Oct 10, 2014US-based sapphire ingot producer GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has applied for bankruptcy protection possibly because its HEM technology-based ingot growing process has seen much lower than expected yield rates at only about 40%, ...
Tags: GTAT, bankruptcy, sapphire ingot
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There Will Be an Estimated Demand for 12.44 Million Mm of 2-Inch-Equivalent Sapphires
Aug 18, 2014There will be an estimated demand for 12.44 million mm of 2-inch-equivalent sapphires for optical purposes in 2014, mainly consisting of 54.3% for use in smartphone button covers, 24.1% iWatch covers and 17.4% smartphone camera lens covers, ...
Tags: Digitimes Research, Equivalents, Lighting
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GTAT Should Return Payment Tera Xtal Made in 2012
Aug 18, 2014Sapphire ingot maker Tera Xtal Technology has disclosed the American Arbitration Association (AAA) has decided that US-based equipment supplier GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) should return payment Tera Xtal made in 2012 for sapphire ...
Tags: GTAT, Tera Xtal Technology, Lighting
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Sapphire Substrate Non-LED Applications Are Projected to Reach a 32% Share in 2014
May 28, 2014Out of sapphire substrate non-LED applications, mobile devices have shown the strongest demand. Sapphire substrate non-LED applications are projected to reach a 32% share in 2014, with mobile device applications taking a 21% share, ...
Tags: LED applications, mobile devices
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The LED Substrate Is One of The Key Factors Impacting The LED Front-End Industry
May 1, 2014According to Yole Développement's new market research report 'LED Front-End Manufacturing Trends' (which covers substrates, epitaxy, lithography, plasma etching & deposition, PVD and testing), the LED substrate is one of the key ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
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How to Decrease The LED Front-End Cost by 15% Every Year?
Apr 30, 2014The overall Front-End manufacturing trends for LED manufacturing are following the same path: decrease manufacturing costs, increase yield to improve binning, extract more light per mm² and per watt injected into the die… So all ...
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Yole Releases Sapphire Applications and Market:From LED to Consumer Electronics Report
Mar 6, 2014The French consulting company Yole Développement releases this month its Sapphire Applications and Market: From LED to Consumer Electronics report. This technology & market report provides a detailed analysis of the status and ...
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Limits of Sapphire,Compared with Corning's Gorilla Glass
Jan 14, 2014A lot of attention and speculation has been brewing on GT Advanced Technologies' (GTAT) sapphire screens replacing Corning's (GLW) Gorilla Glass in the iPhone 6. Sapphire is one of the hardest materials on earth and is basically scratch ...
Tags: GT Advanced Technologies, sapphire screens, Corning, Gorilla Glass
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Exacting Sapphire Substrate Investment Rumor by Roshow Technology Is False
Dec 11, 2013Roshow Technology has released an abnormal stock price announcement after experiencing three days of inflation on stock prices surpassing 25 percent. The listed company does not manufacturer sapphire substrate. It expressed that rumors on ...
Tags: sapphire substrate, price, iphone6
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Major International Sapphire Substrate Suppliers Stock Prices Have Plunged
Dec 11, 2013Sapphire substrate concept stocks have soared lately on China’s A-Shares market, but major international sapphire substrate suppliers stock prices have plunged, according to a China Securities Journal article. Out of the major ...