This year, according to a popular Taiwanese Internet resource DigiTimes, Sharp company factory in Kameyama ?2 reduce production volume by more than 40%. This company produces a glass substrate by the so-called technology IGZO, the electronic circuit, and an array of thin-film transistors is formed from materials such as indium, gallium, zinc, and silicon oxide. Due to non-traditional materials , better conductivity of electrons manage to create a cost-effective for the consumption of high-resolution screen and good viewing angles. Sharp was selected to provide screens for the production of Apple? but What happened?
Analysts warned Sharp's in the summer . From the second quarter of last year, Sharp noted high interest in IGZO screens by mass Chinese manufacturers of smartphones and tablets. In the wake of this interest Sharp began dramatically expand production volumes substrates using IGZO for cutting on small screens. In the future Kameyama ?2 had to prepare for these needs up to 80% of production. But in the summer of last year, Sharp warned that the rate for the Chinese manufacturers could end badly, it was too fast they change the vector of interest.
It seems that just happened. The smartphone market is oversaturated with products and slows down the growth rate. The Chinese are beginning to look for an opportunity to save money on parts and increasingly prefer low-screens local production. In 2015, according to the source, the daily volume of substrates based on IGZO technology will be reduced from 1200 to substrates 700-800. Sharp has tried to adjust the excess formed to build TVs, but there competition is too high, so that the Japanese manufacturer will again have to worry about loss.
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