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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...
Tuesday 26 April 2011
Sapphire ingot maker Alpha Crystal listed at NT$70 per share
Alpha Crystal Technology, a Taiwan-based producer of sapphire ingots, on April 25 began listing on the local emerging stock bourse at NT$70 per share, according to the company. Alpha...
Monday 25 April 2011
Wafer Works Optronics to double sapphire wafer capacity in 2011
Taiwan-based Wafer Works Optronics will gradually expand its production capacity of sapphire wafers beginning May-June, with monthly capacity to be hiked from 100,000 wafers currently...
Friday 15 April 2011
SAS details spin-off plans
Taiwan-based wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) on April 14 announced that it will spin off its semiconductor wafers and sapphire wafers/substrates business units as...
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...
Tuesday 12 April 2011
Sapphire ingot prices tend to drop in 2Q11 due to potential oversupply
Despite a take-off of the LED industry, pressure is mounting on suppliers of sapphire ingots for lower quotes in the second quarter 2011 as recent capacity ramps by makers, Korea-based...
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
Sapphire ingot prices to remain unchanged in 2Q11
Prices of sapphire ingots for the second quarter of 2011 are expected to stay at the same levels as those in the first quarter as current sapphire ingot supplies are still falling...
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...