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Sapphire material market exceeded $200M in 2010 despite the downturn.
Sapphire product is serving mainly 2 applications in the electronics field:
GaN-based LED and RF devices, both for mobile phones (Silicon-on-Sapphire
"SoS" technology).

The sapphire substrate market for electronic applications has reached a
market volume of approximately 9 million wafers (2" equivalent) for LED
augmented by some 10's of thousands 6" and 8" wafers for SoS RF applications
in 2009.

Despite the 2009 economic situation and thanks mostly to LCD LED
backlight applications, the c-plan sapphire wafer market grew +4% over 2009
compared to 2008 in the LED segment.

On the other hand, r-plan sapphire business for SoS applications has been
strongly affected by the recession as the main application markets are
related to consumer appliances (mainly mobile phones). As a result, a -55%
revenue decline has been observed on the r-plan side.

2" sapphire price as low as ever but shortage risk could generate
turbulence The price pressure on 2" remains critical and our models showed
that most of the suppliers are having a very tiny margin on that material and
some of them are even losing money in that business. The 2" price level,
especially in Taiwan, was extremely low and the psychological $10 threshold
has probably been reached. However, we stay confident that 2" wafer price
will gain +15% to 20% in 2010 as a shortage situation cannot be excluded.

Indeed, our Demand-Capacity analysis shows a "risk-zone" that should
occur during the second half of 2010, where all the planned capacity won't be
fully installed, facing a demand in LED that can create some turbulence. Now,
we feel comfortable saying that this stress period should end early in 2011
with the full ramp-up of sapphire producers.

Is 6" sapphire economically viable for LED?
2009 saw the introduction of first industrial tools running 6" diameter for
LED manufacture. It is still unclear how 6" sapphire can bring a strong
added-value on the LED manufacturing cost as the market price of these
substrates stays very high in comparison to $/sq. inch costs for 2" and 4"
wafers. We ran our proprietary Sapphire Growth Cost Model tool and found that
only Kyropulos and EFG growth techniques could generate a sub $6/sq. inch
c-plan wafer cost in 6" diameter, which is again very expensive compared to
smaller diameter materials.

Japan captures almost half the business
With more than 44% market share, Japanese sapphire producers are again
leading the business in 2009. Kyocera and Namiki are now collecting more than
$100M in sapphire revenues for both substrates and non-substrate (Optical
applications) products. Shinkosha and Sumitomo Metal Mining are also part of
the TOP-12 players.

In the US, Rubicon has faced a severe downturn on the r-plan segment as
its main client Peregrine has strongly reduced its orders. In Europe,
Monocrystal Plc. remains the number one actor.

This report provides a complete analysis of the 2 main applications
targeted by the sapphire substrates along with key market metrics. It
describes the involvement of the major material suppliers and gives a
snapshot of the sapphire industry playground.

The report presents the $ and unit values on the 2006-2013 time scale for
the GaN-based LED and SoS-based RF devices and their equivalence in substrate
consumptions and related material market size.

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