U.S. sapphire materials suppliers and equipment manufacturers a very special advanced (GT Advanced Technologies) on October 6 suddenly filed for bankruptcy protection. As at September 29, 2014, still holds a very special advanced $ 85 million in cash. A $ 578 million supply agreement signed with Apple basis before, very special need to provide a certain number of advanced sapphire crystal rod to give Apple, but because of the long grain yield as expected, Apple unwilling to continue to pay the remaining money; plus pole Sapphire Dan Changjing with special advanced drilling equipment factory Xin Jing dispute lawsuit against Taiwan, the amount of equipment needed to return $ 24 million to Xin crystal diamond, cash-strapped cause problems.
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TrendForce’s green energy career at LEDinside observation pointed out that the results actually tracked. Despite the very special advanced with nearly 2,000 crystal growth furnace production capacity to 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus Size converter, capable of providing 1,000 ten thousand sapphire protection panel, but due to a very special advanced crystal growth rate while maintaining good at four percent, plus processed into a situation from ingot yield sapphire segment protection panel can not be overcome, the cause can not be imported sapphire protection panel iPhone this year two new machines, but most especially the two companies advanced and Apple also abolished many employees to this project responsible for.
LEDinside said sapphire protection panel will be Apple’s competitors to differentiate important expression. Because Apple has invested a lot of money and patent applications in the layout sapphire protection panel to protect the lens from the camera on the iPhone, Home key to Apple Watch table covers are introduced one by one sapphire glass, sapphire protective panel therefore not impossible to import the iPhone OK, but still needs time to overcome. If all goes well, perhaps equipped with sapphire iPhone protection panel have the opportunity to debut at the end of 2015.
Road iPhone sapphire protection panel listed, still need to overcome three major obstacles
1 long crystal production capacity:
Sapphire protective panel in the supply chain into consideration crystal growth technology can not be ignored. Traditional suppliers such as KY law Monocrystal, Rubicon, Harbin Institute of Technology, Taiwan companies such as poly photovoltaic technology is more skilled, higher product yield, but requires a lot of skilled long-grain division to produce poor mass production. KY law currently able to do more than 90 kg class is only a small number of vendors. The product life cycle is short and the need for mass production of mobile phone industry, there are still a considerable number of threshold to overcome, and therefore had no choice supplier of Apple and more KY law camp.
On the other hand, HEM crystal growth method is very special claim to its high degree of advanced crystal growth furnace automation equipment, and can grow more than 200 kg of single crystal sapphire, very adaptable to mass production, which is the beginning of the selected pole Apple the main reason special advanced cooperation. However HEM France very special product yield is much lower than claimed by the advanced level, it seems that still takes time to overcome technical obstacles. For Apple, if you want to continue future development of sapphire protection panel, you must have enough ingot sources. Currently HEM method and KY France, VHGF law sapphire suppliers have switched certified, so Apple will continue to increase in the future to avoid ingot supplier shortage. Sapphire Dan Changjing for both experienced vendors will have the opportunity to increase the supply of apples, or even get a stable agreement.
2 Cost Capacity:
Currently the size of 5.5 inches, the production cost of sapphire panel thickness of 500 um, at least more than $ 60, for a sell US $ 859 the iPhone 6 Plus, it just costs sapphire protective panels accounted for 7% of the price of the phone. Therefore, how to reduce the cost will be very important topic. Despite boasts a very special advanced laser cutting technology, the sapphire substrate can be thinned and then to fit the traditional tempered glass processing, can reduce the cost of sapphire protection panel, but now it seems that the technology is still some distance away from mass production, is there a more appropriate technology to reduce costs need to do to observe the future.
After processing capacity of 3 segments:
Sapphire protection panel is not simply the sole responsibility of the advent of long-grain plants, as well as cutting and grinding and polishing after the segment, coatings, mimeograph and other processes. Especially in the Cutting and polishing of processing, hard and difficult because of the sapphire substrate material processing, but at the same time there is the problem of fragile, so the segment processing firms also need to actively look for ways to identify with a mass production process in nature.
