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Friday 6 May 2011
SAS reports falling April revenues
Sino-American Silicon has reported April revenues of NT$1,857 million (US$64.82 million), a 7.76% sequential decrease but a 25.49% on-year increase.
Thursday 5 May 2011
Patterned sapphire substrate wafers expected to account for 50% of the market in 2011
Contrast to the lack of demand for LED TV, the market for LED lighting has been growing steadily. With demands for improvements in luminous efficacy growing, the market forecasts...
Thursday 5 May 2011
Crystalwise to debut on Taiwan OTC market
LED sapphire wafer manufacturer Crystalwise Technology has gained approval to list on the Taiwan over-the-counter (OTC) market, and expects to make its debut in the first half of...
Friday 29 April 2011
Wafer Works Optronics to ramp up sapphire ingot capacity
Wafer Works Optronics, a Taiwan-based producer of sapphire ingots, wafers and substrates, will expand its production capacity of sapphire ingots by adding crystal-growing furnaces...
Friday 29 April 2011
SAS to expand sapphire capacity
Taiwan-based Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) will spin off its sapphire wafer/substrate business as a wholly owned subsidiary, Taiwan Sapphire, and is constructing a new factory...
Thursday 14 April 2011
SAS to spin off semiconductor wafer and sapphire substrate businesses
Taiwan-based Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) on April 14 announced plans to create two independent companies by spinning off its semiconductor wafer and LED sapphire substrate...
Thursday 14 April 2011
Sapphire substrate makers Cyrstal Applied and Tera Xtal to deal out dividends, says paper
Two Taiwan-based sapphire substrate makers Crystal Applied Technology and Tera Xtal Technology plan to deal out handsome dividends for their performance in 2010, according to a Chinese-language...
Thursday 14 April 2011
Ferric core maker Acme reports explosion at plant
Taiwan-based Acme Electronics, which produces mainly ferrite cores, has reported an explosion at its plant in Miaoli County, northern Taiwan. Seven employees were injured.
Thursday 7 April 2011
SAS sapphire substrate sales top NT$100 million in March
Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) saw monthly sales of its patterned sapphire substrates exceed NT$100 mbillion (US$3.5 million) for the first time in March 2011, according to...
Tuesday 29 March 2011
Sumitomo Chemical, Samsung LED team up for sapphire substrates
Sumitomo Chemical and Samsung LED have entered into an agreement to establish a joint venture in Korea for the R&D, manufacture, and sale of sapphire substrates for LEDs, Sumitomo...
Monday 28 March 2011
SAS expects sapphire substrate sales to grow substantially in 2011
Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has estimated that sales of its patterned sapphire substrates will top NT$2 billion (US$68 million) in 2011, and growth in the high-margin product...
Friday 25 March 2011
Sapphire ingot prices sustainable for 2Q11
Sapphire ingot prices are unlikely to drop in the second quarter of 2011, on rising demand for LED-backlit and lighting applications, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Prices...
Wednesday 16 March 2011
Sapphire substrate supply unaffected by Japan earthquake, says Epistar
The supply of sapphire substrates will not be affected by the Japan earthquake as the facilities of the top-2 Japan-based makers - Kyocera and Namiki - were not damaged by the quake,...
Thursday 10 March 2011
Wafer Works Optronics see revenues more than double in February 2011
Wafer Works Optronics, a sapphire substrate subsidiary of silicon wafer maker Wafer Works, saw its revenues surge 123% sequentially to a record high of NT$73.1 million (US$2.5 million...
Wednesday 9 March 2011
The LED upstream boom: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Jessie Lin
With LED chipmakers aggressively increasing capacity to meet fast growing demand from the LCD displays and general lighting markets, suppliers in the upstream are optimistic on outlook...