Comprehensive Survey of the Main Market Metrics and Companies Involved in the Sapphire for Electronic Applications Market.DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/38c89b/sapphire_market_20) has announced the addition of the "Sapphire sapphire, precious stone. A transparent blue corundum, it is classified among the most valuable of gems. Sapphires are found chiefly in Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar and also in Australia and in the United States (in Montana). market 2008" report to their offering. Thanks to tremendous growth in SoS devices, the sapphire material business will break the $400M barrier by 2012. Sapphire substrates market: a 21% annual growth business Sapphire product is serving mainly two applications in the electronics field: GaN-based LED and RF switch devices for mobile phones. The sapphire substrate The base layer of a structure such as a chip, multichip module (MCM), printed circuit board or disk platter. Silicon is the most widely used substrate for chips. Fiberglass (FR4) is mostly used for printed circuit boards, and ceramic is used for MCMs. market for electronic applications has reached a market volume of 4.61 Million wafers wafers compressed roughage in flat plates useful for feeding to animals in transit. (2" equivalent) for LED augmented by several 10's of thousands of 6" wafers for SoS RF applications in 2007. The overall sapphire material market is expected to grow at a +21% annual growth rate to $402M by 2012 (Fig. 1). Nitride nitride Any of a class of chemical compounds in which nitrogen is combined with an element of similar or lower electronegativity, such as boron, silicon, and most metals. Some examples of nitrides include boron nitride, calcium nitride, aluminum nitride, and cyanogen. LED has been the main driver for the sapphire business for several years, today exhibiting a +15% CAGR CAGR See: Compound Annual Growth Rate to 2012 and a $100M+ revenues in 07. Silicon-on-Sapphire (SoS) applications have ramped-up since 2006 with Peregrine take-off and have shown a tremendous start. 2007 revenue at the substrate level was in the sub-$35M range but is anticipated to cross the $100M line in 2011. Sapphire business for the LED market is suffering from the huge pressure on prices in the main Asian regions. With a LED die-on-wafer now sold between 2 and 3 cents on the market the LED producers are requesting sapphire substrates down to $17 for a 2" wafer (1) A small, thin continuous-loop magnetic tape cartridge that has been used from time to time for data storage and specialized applications. (2) The base unit of chip making. It is a slice taken from a salami-like silicon crystal ingot up to 12" (300mm) in diameter. . Sapphire substrates market: a 21% annual growth business. This situation has forced some sapphire producers to leave these regions to focus on western countries where market prices are more attractive. Demand for 4" wafers is currently booming along with the recent announcements of some major companies such as Osram and Showa Denko Showa Denko K. K. (昭和電工株式会社 to migrate part of the production to the larger diameter substrate. Plans for 6" nitride LED production have been announced by Samsung in Sept. 08 and 8" c-plan sapphire has been demonstrated by Monocrystal. SoS Ultra-CMOS[R] technology is gaining momentum in the cell-phone business, trying to shift the established switch technologies such as PiN diodes A PIN diode is a diode with a wide, undoped intrinsic semiconductor region between p-type semiconductor and n-type semiconductor regions. A PIN diode obeys the standard diode equation only for very slow signals. and GaAs pHEMT. Asia captures 2/3 of the revenues Asia is collecting about 67% of the sapphire business revenues thanks to 5 leading companies of the TOP 10 ranking. Monocrystal and Saint-Gobain are positioning Europe with 20% of the total revenues. North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. sapphire business (-13%) is mainly driven by Rubicon activities. Sapphire for LED usage is concentrated in Asia with more than 88% of sales. Taiwan solo is representing 58% of the demand and Japan is covering 19% of the substrate consumption (Fig. 2). Sapphire for SoS-based devices was originally located in Australia, but is now moving to Asia as Peregrine is becoming fab-less and has inked several agreements with Korean semicon fabs to outsource the production. Kyocera is still the #1 vendor on a world basis with estimated sales in 2007 of $100 M for both electronics and optical materials Optical materials All substances used in the construction of devices or instruments whose function is to alter or control electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet, visible, or infrared spectral regions. . Namiki and Rubicon are challenging Kyocera in the TOP 3. Sapphire business is buoyancy buoyancy (boi`ənsē, b  `yən–), upward force exerted by a fluid on any body immersed in it. Buoyant force can be explained in terms of Archimedes' principle. very active market where
M&A's are crossing new entrants and companies exiting the
business. The most significant recent news: Energomera Group
(Monocrystal' mother company) acquisition of Russian compatriot com·pa·tri·ot n. 1. A person from one's own country. 2. A colleague. [French compatriote, from Late Latin compatri Atlas (March 08) that will place the company firmly in the OP 3 suppliers and Honeywell tending to exit the sapphire business selling its Canadian plant to Chinese SilianTech (April 08). Key Features This report provides a complete analysis of the 2 main applications targeted by the sapphire substrates along with key market metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. . It describes the involvement of the major material suppliers and gives a snapshot (1) A saved copy of memory including the contents of all memory bytes, hardware registers and status indicators. It is periodically taken in order to restore the system in the event of failure. (2) A saved copy of a file before it is updated. of the sapphire industry playground. The report presents the $ and unit values on the 2005-2012 time scale for the GaN-based LED and SoS-based RF devices and their equivalence in substrate consumptions and related material market size. Key Topics Covered: - Glossary - Executive summary - Sapphire substrate market - Time to market - Sapphire for Nitride LEDs - Silicon-on-Sapphire - Sapphire supplier profiles - Conclusions - Annexes - SiC substrates market overview - State-of-art in SiC crystal growth - Current status of the LED performance and related technologies - Watt HB-LED generates 3/4 in heat vs. 1/4 in light! - Different options to optimize LED performance - LED efficiency Companies Mentioned: - Anadigics - Atlas - Avago - CREE - Crystal GmbH - Crystal Systems - Crystal Wise - CrystalQ - Epistone - Freescale - Hitachi ME - Honeywell - International Rectifier - Interoptec/Fujimi - Kyocera - Lumileds - MagnaChip - Matsushita - Monocrystal PLC - Inc. - Murata - Namiki - Nichia - OKI - OSRAM - Peregrine - Renesas - Rubicon Technology - Saifei - Saint-Gobain Crystals - Samsung - Shinkosha - Showa Denko - SilianTech - Sino American Silicon - Skyworks - Sumitomo Metal Fine Technology - Teckore - Tera Xtal Technology - Teravicta - Toyoda Gosei - TriQuint - WISpry For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/38c89b/sapphire_market_20 |
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