Although apple (Apple) iPhone 6 series was not as expected, use sapphire as protection outer cover, which makes the sapphire import intelligent mobile phone heat to cooling, although recent mainland market spread, new 5.7 inch millet 5 flagship mobile phone will likely adopt a sapphire protective cover, and is published in the 2015 CES exhibition.
Taiwan sapphire substrate factory, previously did heard this rumor, however mobile phone protection at present large-scale import sapphire 5 inch class cover capacity is still inadequate, but with the upcoming 2015 published in the Apple Watch took the lead into the sapphire material, is expected to greatly develop application expected sapphire sea.
Sapphire substrate factory pointed out that due to the LED industry in the fourth quarter of next year the first quarter is the traditional off-season ~, now it seems 2015 January demand is still weak, is expected before and after the Lunar Festival is expected to rebound gradually, with the 2015 LED lighting development is rapid, the basic disk Sapphire original LED market is not weak.
And with the Apple Watch is expected to launch, are interested in follow-up brand manufacturers are ready, expected second quarter market demand is expected to significantly warmer.
With the intelligent mobile phone brands focus on product differentiation segmentation, sapphire protective outer cap in 2014 has become the market hot topic, because the market anticipates iPhone may import sapphire cover, at the beginning of 2014 Japanese KYOCERA Corp. (Kyocera) cooperation has been with the United States telecom operators Verizon first introduced the first sapphire protection outer cover mobile phone model.
KYOCERA sapphire adopt their own products, mobile phone brand, then Vivo and HUAWEI also launched smartphone collocation sapphire outer cover, although the recent market came again, millet 5 also may use the sapphire cover.
According to legend, millet, etc. recently by brand Meizu actively to catch up with the pressure, in order to draw City, speculated that the millet 5 flagship machine models will use 5.7 inch screen, panel resolution reached 2K level, the protection of the outer cover may even to import sapphire as the topic.
Previous industry comes out, the Department of Korean sapphire supplier received millet asked to speed up at the end of the year to early with the supply, delivery time, but according to the millet technology 2014 mobile phone sales target of 60000000 units calculation, millet 4 due to the initial lack of capacity so that the third quarter of 2014 shipments to decline, but with millet 4 season fourth shipments of 19000000 units to estimate, if millet 5 using sapphire protective cover, the existing capacity may be difficult to cope with the sapphire, expectations are more likely to limited edition on sale.
Intelligent mobile size enlarged continuously, for existing reinforced glass does not cause production difficulties, but sapphire with artificial long crystal manufacturing, to cut into the protection of mobile phone crystal column size and thickness outer cover, the crystal column volume needs to enlarge, not only growth time longer, and the crystal column growth yield also decreased, in addition cutting technology, also need to cooperate with the change, the degree of difficulty increased, the cost is bound to high.
In addition, the material properties of sapphire has the advantage in the surface hardness, but high brittleness, resulting in bending test can not be compared with the glass, it is difficult to fit the traditional digging, open concave demand, the industry believes that the sapphire material into the phone still has the characteristics of protective glass doubts.
